Circling the End of the Line in Monsoon: Glints of Significance Across Vimala Devi's Short Story Cycle

• Main Author: e Castro, Paul Melo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Goan literature; Indian literature; late-colonial Goa; postcolonial literature in Portuguese; short story theory
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/29; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1932/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2029_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Goa_20Before_20India_20Late_Colonial_20Goan_20Society_20and_20Culture_20__20e_20Castro.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article analyzes Vimala Devi’s Monsooni (the 2019 English translation of her Monção, originally published in Portuguese in 1963, with a second augmented edition in 2003) as a short story cycle, a genre that differs as much from the traditional novel as from non-integrated collections of short n...