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- Title
REFLECTIONS ON STORYTELLING IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: RANA DASGUPTA'S TOKYO CANCELLED.
- Authors
Mallavarapu, Srikanth
- Abstract
In Rana Dasgupta's first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), thirteen stranded travelers share stories that demonstrate the contradictory pulls inherent in the negotiation of modernity in the globalized world economy. On the one hand there is an increasing sense of new possibilities, a shining new world of commodities and technology; on the other these stories also clearly reflect a sense of alienation as well as the reification of social relationships. In this article, I explore how Dasgupta uses conventions from folk traditions and fairy tales to map out the contours of contemporary experience. While this mode of writing serves to dramatize the forms of alienation in contemporary life, I also argue that Tokyo Cancelled serves as a self-conscious exploration of the possibilities of storytelling in this era of globalization and late capitalism.
- Subjects
TOKYO Cancelled (Book); DASGUPTA, Rana; FICTION; LITERARY criticism; STORYTELLING; TRAVELERS
- Publication
Latch: A Journal for the Study of the Literary Artifacts in Theory, Culture or History, 2013, Vol 6, p75
- ISSN
1947-9441
- Publication type
Literary Criticism