List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valanciunas
Part I History, Politics and Trauma
1. Places Stained by Time: The Gothic Poetics of State Terror in
Dhrubajyoti Bora's Kalantor Trilogy - Amit R. Baishya
2. Home Is Where the Horror Is: Pakistani Films and Historical
Trauma - Kamayani Sharma
3. The Past and the Present: A Reading of Bhooter Bhabishyat -
Nishi Pulugurtha
Part II Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Diaspora
4. Search and Subterfuge: The Haunting of the Bengali Bhadralok in
Tagore's 'The Hungry Stones - Prasanta Bhattacharyy
5. Tracing Terror and the Uncanny in the Gothic Urdu Fiction of
Hijab Imtiaz Ali - Shweta Sachdeva Jha
6. Rebecca in India: The Appropriation of European Gothic in Indian
Cinema - Deimantas Valanciunas
7. 'Khamosh! . . . The Kaptan is going to speak': Gothic
Conventions and Diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies - Shilpa
Daithota Bhat
Part III. Spirits, Rituals and Folklore
8. Paunksnis Mysteries in the Air: Modern Bhutan and the Cultural
Representations of the Supernatural - Runa Chakraborty
9. No Place for Trespassers: Notes Toward a Himalayan Anthropology
of Fright - Davide Torri
10. Monsters of Every Stripe: Navigating the Werebeasts of Indian
Horror Cinema - Sarah A. Joshi
11. The Tantric as Gothic Villain: Kapalikas and Aghoris in
Medieval and Contemporary Indian Literature - Ira Sarma
Part IV Gothic Media
12. The Making of a Monster: Evil in Hindi Comics - Aditi Sen
13. 'But Are They All Horrid?' On the Intermittent Use of the
Gothic in Hindi Horror Cinema - Valentina Vitali
14. Detecting Ghosts: Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit as Global Gothic
Television - Katarzyna Ancuta
15. 'Bhoot FM' and the Gothic Tradition in Bangladesh - Muhammed
Shahriar Haque
Index
• South Asian Gothic engages key debates in the study of an area
that is seriously overlooked within the field of Gothic
studies.
• It widens and deepens the critical analysis of the gothic themes
and conventions in the texts produced outside the Anglo-American
context usually associated with gothic.
• This book pays attention to various political, historical and
aesthetical configurations in South Asia and is the first attempt
to theorise South Asia and its Gothic production as a common
cultural landscape. Therefore, the volume will be relevant to
scholars and students in the field of South Asian studies.
• The volume investigates a wide range of different cultural media
and, therefore, is also relevant to media studies and related
disciplines including literary criticism, film studies,
postcolonial studies, and world cinema studies.
This collection will be suitable for undergraduate, post-graduates, as well as scholars of Gothic Studies.
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