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Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor,
University of Nevada, Reno
Thesis Title: "The Country and the Village: Representations of the Rural in Twentieth-Century South Asian Writing"
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Chelva Kanaganayakam
Linda Hutcheon Neil ten Kortenaar |
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My dissertation- and soon to be a monograph- builds a model for writing a literary history for South Asia in the 20th century. I focus on a few representative novels from India and Sri Lanka where villages figure as metonyms for the nation-state and are often mapped out on the lines of a binary: as utopia or dystopia. By using the trope of the rural (and not the ubiquitous city), I follow the intersecting trajectories of certain key writers and their texts to argue for a very particular definition of utopia in the South Asian context. A definition that ties up the literary traditions of the subcontinent with its religious histories (Hindu-dominant in India; and Sinhala-Buddhist-dominant in Sri Lanka). Recent fiction from South Asia has, however, deconstructed such a binary, impelled partly by the dissatisfactions of post-colonial nationalisms, and partly by the drive to represent in writing a positive vision of cosmopolitanism. Following, but also nuancing, Michel Foucault, I call this emergent body of writing heterotopic.
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