Utopia and the village in South Asian literatures

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Utopia and the village in South Asian literatures

Anupama Mohan

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Bibliography: p. 219-231

Includes index

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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.

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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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