Horror Fiction in the Global South : Cultures, Narratives and Representations /: Cultures, Narratives and Representations. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ritwick Bhattacharjee, Saikat Ghosh.
• Editors: Bhattacharjee, Ritwick; Ghosh, Saikat
• Contents: Introduction, Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Saikat Ghosh1. The Spectral Witness in Contemporary Indian Horror Cinema, Anhiti Pattnaik2. Conjuring an Atmosphere: A Study of Tumbbad as Folk Horror, Sakshi Dogra3. Embodying Horror: Corporeal and Affective Dread in Junji Ito's Tomie, Shweta Khilnani4. Feminine Sexuality and Sexual Trauma in Bengali Horror Fiction: The Emergence of the Goddess, Puja Sen Majumdar5. The Horror of Heteronormativity: The Supernatural in Vijay Detha's A Double Life, Aina Singh.6. Historical Time and Mythical Monsters: Negotiating of Mortality in MT Vasudevan Nair's 'Little Earthquakes', Meenu B. 7. Genres from the Orient: Instability in Shweta Taneja's Cult of Chaos, Samarth Singhal.8. Funny Ghosts, Friendly Ghosts: A Study of How Indian English Pre-Teen Horror Fiction Turns Fear on its Head, Anurima Chanda.9. Mythopoeia and Horror in the Global South: Reading Umpanyu Chatterjee's Fairy Tales at Fifty, Srinjoyee Dutta, 10. Spirits and Possessions, Rajarshi Bhattacharjee.11. Oriental Vampires vs. British Imperialists: Looking into the Figure of the Vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Burton's Vikram and the Vampire, Meenakshi Sharma.12. Monsters of the Caribbean: Haunting Histories and Haunted Bodies in The Rainmaker's Mistake and Soucouyant, Jarrel De Matas.13. The Corporeality of Horror: Spectres of War Victims in the Post 2003 Gothic Narratives from Iraq, Sushrita Acharjee14. Horror at the Margins: Phobic Essence and the 'Uncanny' Home in Contemporary Asian Gothic Literatures, Soumyarup Bhattacharjee.15. Terror and Wartime Cosmologies in Liu Cixin, Krushna Dande.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Philosophy; Literary Criticism -- Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fantasy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789390077281; 9390077281
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