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Title | Servants of the Untouchable: the Gothic Genre in Colonial and Postcolonial Anglo-Indian Ghost Stories, 1888-2018 |
Author | Federica PETRIGLIERI |
Director of thesis | Enit Steiner |
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Summary of thesis | The thesis follows an investigative chronological study departing from the year 1888 up to nowadays. I have selected the authors based on two criteria: hyphenated subjects with a deep interest in writing ghost stories settled in the northern Indian hill stations and wrote during the colonial and postcolonial times. As suggested by the title of this work, I construct a parallel between the ghosts present in the gothic stories and the Indian servants which find themselves in uncannily similar conditions: they are invisible to the others even though they are alive. Hence, the servants become the ghost witnesses of the literature. |
Status | beginning |
Administrative delay for the defence | 2027 |
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