![]() Tracing Terror and the Uncanny in the Gothic Urdu Fiction of Hijab Imtiaz Ali - Shweta Sachdeva JhaĦ. Search and Subterfuge: The Haunting of the Bengali Bhadralok in Tagore’s ‘The Hungry Stones - Prasanta Bhattacharyyaĥ. Part II Colonialism, Postcolonialism and DiasporaĤ. The Past and the Present: A Reading of Bhooter Bhabishyat - Nishi Pulugurtha Home Is Where the Horror Is: Pakistani Films and Historical Trauma - Kamayani Sharmaģ. Places Stained by Time: The Gothic Poetics of State Terror in Dhrubajyoti Bora’s Kalantor Trilogy - Amit R. ![]() Introduction - Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnasġ. The volume investigates South Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of the transnational category of globalgothic, contributing to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant in the culturally-diverse modern world. ![]() ![]() Gothic in South Asia can be read as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated, translated, transformed or resisted. The volume consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in contemporary South Asian cultures. This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. ![]()
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