Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations Contributor(s): Bhattacharjee, Ritwick (Editor), Ghosh, Saikat (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9390077273 ISBN-13: 9789390077274 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Horror & Supernatural - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Physical Information: 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations believes that the experiences of horror are not just individual but also/simultaneously cultural. Within this understanding, literary productions become rather potent sites for the relation of such experiences both on the individual and the cultural front. It's not coincidental, then, that either William Blatty's The Exorcist or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude become archetypes of the re-presentations of the way horror affects individuals placed inside different cultures. Such an affectation, though, is but a beginning of the ways in which the supernatural interacts with the human and gives rise to horror. Considering that almost all aspects of what we now designate as the Global North, and its concomitant, the Global South - political, historical, social, economic, cultural, and so on - function as different paradigms, the experiences of horror and their telling in stories become functionally different as well. Added to this are the variations that one nation or culture of the east has from another. |