Pallavi Sanyal

Pallavi Sanyal
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Literature Studies
Literary Criticism
Modern Literature
Fiction
Critical Theory
Textual Criticism
Current institution
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Chennai, India

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Nostalgia for Revolution in Calcutta: Violence and Spectrality in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others
Article
  • Mar 2022
The city in postcolonial Indian literature is important not only because of its primacy in national image making, but also because many contemporary Indian writers in English are based out of major cities. This paper focusses on Calcutta to explore how nostalgia for events in the city’s past, which have remained unmemorialized in official narrative...
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