Utopia and the village in south Asian literatures
Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9781137031891, 1137031891
810253378
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Representing the Rural Hind Swaraj and Rural Utopia Beddagama: Dystopia in Ceylon Kanthapura and Khasak: Utopia in Distress Koggala and the Reclaimed Buddhist Utopia Rethinking the Binary: Rural Heterotopia Conclusion Works Cited Index
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