Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

By Anupama Mohan

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023035498X
• ISBN13: 9780230354982
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"