South Asian gothic : haunted cultures, histories and media / edited by Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valaniunas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ancuta, Katarzyna, editor.

Valaniunas, Deimantas, editor.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Horror films--India--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Indic fiction--History and criticism.

Indic fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2021]

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.

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'

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786838018

178683801X

OCLC:

1283845548