A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz

Published:2021-09 Issue:3 Volume:8 Page:380-395
ISSN:2052-2614
Container-title:The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
language:en
Short-container-title:Postcolon. Lit. inq

Author:

Sperner Philipp^ORCID

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the spatial configuration of the Hindi novel Naukar kī kamīz by Vinod Kumar Shukla (translated into English as The Servant’s Shirt). In highlighting the argumentative and structural similarities between the content of the novel and various concepts of social space and literary spatiality developed by Catherine Régulier, Henri Lefebrve, Edward Soja, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, the article proposes to read the novel not only as a rare example of a detailed engagement with the social space of a postcolonial small town, but also as a text that provides a useful method and indeed a theory for the analysis of such a small town and its literary representation.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,History,Cultural Studies

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