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...
Main Authors: | Sanghamitra Devi, Esther Daimari |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2023-07-01
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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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