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1 online resource (302 pages) |
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Gothic Literary Studies |
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Gothic literary studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas -- Part I: History, Politics and Trauma -- 1: Places Stained by Time: The Gothic Poetics of State Terror in Dhrubajyoti Bora's Kalantor Trilogy -- 2: Home Is Where the Horror Is: Pakistani Films and Historical Trauma -- 3: The Past and the Present: A Reading of Bhooter Bhabishyat -- Part II: Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Diaspora -- 4: Search and Subterfuge: The Haunting of the Bengali Bhadralok in Tagore's 'The Hungry Stones' |
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5: Tracing Terror and the Uncanny in the Gothic Urdu Fiction of Hijab Imtiaz Ali -- 6: Rebecca in India: The Appropriation of European Gothic in Indian Cinema -- 7: 'Khamosh! ... The Kaptan is going to speak': Gothic Conventions and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh'sSea of Poppies -- Part III: Spirits, Rituals and Folklore -- 8: Mysteries in the Air: Modern Bhutan and the Cultural Representations of the Supernatural -- 9: No Place for Trespassers: Notes Toward a Himalayan Anthropology of Fright -- 10: Monsters of Every Stripe: Navigating the Werebeasts of Indian Horror Cinema |
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11: The Tantric as Gothic Villain: Kapalikas and Aghoris in Medieval and Contemporary Indian Literature -- Part IV: Gothic Media -- 12: The Making of a Monster: Evil in Hindi Comics -- 13: 'But Are They All Horrid?' On the Intermittent Use of the Gothic in Hindi Horror Cinema -- 14: Detecting Ghosts: Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit as Global Gothic Television -- 15: 'Bhoot FM' and the Gothic Tradition in Bangladesh -- Index -- Backcover |
| Summary |
South Asian Gothic consists of chapters representing the diversity of the region, and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Indic fiction -- History and criticism
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Horror films -- India -- History and criticism
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Horror films
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Indic fiction
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Valaniūnas, Deimantas
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| ISBN |
9781786838018 |
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178683801X |
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9781786838025 |
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1786838028 |
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