Utopia and the Rural in South Asian Literatures provides a
searching exploration of twentieth-century literatures of the
Indian subcontinent by refocusing attention on works that engage
with the village and the rural as a trope. Mohan breathes new life
into Michel Foucault's notion of heterotopia and continues a
conversation with thinkers of utopia about the need for
recuperating the utopian potential in postcolonial writings. The
book provides provocative readings of some of the most important
works of the 20th century in India and Sri Lanka (in English as
well as in translation) and, in its conceptual sweep, presents a
novel way of theorizing the intersecting but also distinct literary
histories of India and Sri Lanka. Authors examined for their unique
visions of the rural include Mohandas Gandhi, Leonard Woolf, Martin
Wickramasinghe, O. V. Vijayan, Amitav Ghosh, and Michael Ondaatje.
For both the novice and the scholar, this is a book that will truly
define the horizons for understanding South Asian literatures and
cultures, and their broader significance within postcolonial
scholarship.
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