Analyzing the ‘abject’: A negotiation through extremism and subalternity in Amitava Kumar’s Husband of a Fanatic

The inter-communal violence that happened in the Western state of Gujarat in 2002 has been one of the deadliest communal violence happened in post-millennia India. Amitava Kumar’s political novel Husband of a Fanatic (2004), delineates the lives of survivors living in the government relief camps in...

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Authors: Anand, Ajit (Author) ; Tripathi, Priyanka (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2021, Volume: 20, Issue: 60, Pages: 34-47
Further subjects:B Extremism
B Subalternity
B Gujarat riots
B Abject
B Communal Violence
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