Decolonial and EcoGothic Tropes in Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

This paper analyzes Deepa Anappara’s novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (2020) from a decolonial ecoGothic perspective to show how the novel exposes the human and ecological crises in an urban slum known as a “basti” in an unnamed part of present-day India. The paper argues that Anappara uses th...

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Main Authors: Sanghamitra Devi, Esther Daimari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2023-07-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
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Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3977

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