Other town
This thesis is divided into two parts: the first part consists of the creative component of this thesis— Other Town— a novel, and the second part consists of the critical exegesis titled, “Private Bodies, Public Desires: Space and the Transgressive Body.” Other Town is the story of Lalee, a comme...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-694432020-10-28T08:52:18Z Other town Rijula Das Barrie Wayne Sherwood School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics This thesis is divided into two parts: the first part consists of the creative component of this thesis— Other Town— a novel, and the second part consists of the critical exegesis titled, “Private Bodies, Public Desires: Space and the Transgressive Body.” Other Town is the story of Lalee, a commercial sex worker in the red light district of Shonagachhi, in Kolkata, India. When her next door neighbour, Mohamaya, is violently murdered one January night, Lalee is drawn into a series of events that threaten her survival in Shonagachhi. With limited resources and a varied cast of characters, ranging from an erotica writer, a pimp, a printer, and several social workers, policemen and prostitutes, Lalee negotiates the boundaries of freedom. Doctor of Philosophy (HSS) 2017-01-09T11:43:56Z 2017-01-09T11:43:56Z 2017 Thesis Rijula D. (2017). Other town. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69443 10.32657/10356/69443 en 328 p. application/pdf |
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This thesis is divided into two parts: the first part consists of the creative component of this
thesis— Other Town— a novel, and the second part consists of the critical exegesis titled, “Private
Bodies, Public Desires: Space and the Transgressive Body.”
Other Town is the story of Lalee, a commercial sex worker in the red light district of
Shonagachhi, in Kolkata, India. When her next door neighbour, Mohamaya, is violently murdered
one January night, Lalee is drawn into a series of events that threaten her survival in Shonagachhi.
With limited resources and a varied cast of characters, ranging from an erotica writer, a pimp, a
printer, and several social workers, policemen and prostitutes, Lalee negotiates the boundaries of
freedom. |
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