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Accepted Paper:
Fiction about real horror
Mirella Lingorska
(University of Tubingen)
Paper short abstract:
"Fireproof" of Raj Kamal Jha is about the massacre in Gujarat in 2002. A senior editor of "The Indian Express", Jha has already reported in documentaries about the riots. In his novel he does quite the opposite. He tells the fictional life stories of the dead and depicts something only fiction offers:
Paper long abstract:
the victims' last acquaintance with their murderers. The paper discusses with some examples the process of swelling disquietness which unfolds through a strong feeling of uncanniness to reach its climax in unspeakable horror.
Panel
P46
Horror and the uncanny in South Asian literatures and film
Session 1