Interrogating Urban Spaces: Kali and the Intellectual in two Contemporary Novels
This article focuses on the complexity of the encounter between two Western male writers and the East as represented by the metropolis of Calcutta and Kali, its patron goddess. The novels under discussion are Dan Simmons’ Song of Kali and Paul Theroux’s A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta. The theoreti...
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| Series: | Gender Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/genst.2015.14.issue-1/genst-2016-0007/genst-2016-0007.xml?format=INT |