Table of Contents

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

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• 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.

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