South Asian Gothic : Haunted cultures, histories and media.

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ancuta, Katarzyna
Otros Autores: Valaniūnas, Deimantas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2021]
Colección:Gothic literary studies.
Temas:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Indic fiction > History and criticism.
Horror films > India > History and criticism.
Roman de l'Inde > Histoire et critique.
Films d'horreur > Inde > Histoire et critique.
Horror films.
Indic fiction.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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'
  • 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
  • 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

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