THE COMPOSITIONAL PARADOX IN VIOLENCE: CLASSES OF BHADRALOK AND CHOTOLOK IN THE NAXALITE NOVEL.
This article problematizes the class and caste-based binary of the bhadralok and the chotolok entwined with the Naxalite/Maoist insurgency in India. These long-catalogued terms have been defined and categorized in this article through a study of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland (2013) and Swati Sengupta'...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 38; pp. 143 - 166 |
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