The Imperial Gothic in British India: Female Demonization in Anita Desai's Voices in the City (1965) and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine (1989)

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https://doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2025.757%20

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demonios, gótico, imperialismo, India, orientalismo

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El presente artículo busca, en primer lugar, investigar cómo el Imperio británico a través de la actividad misionera distorsionó el panteón, la narrativa e iconografía hinduista con el fin de catequizar a la población indígena a la par que entretener al público anglosajón. Los reverendos y cronistas enviados a Oriente desarrollaron todo un bestiario de dioses hinduistas, dotándolos de una naturaleza demoníaca y vampírica con el fin de socavar los andamiajes teológicos del subcontinente. La segunda parte de este artículo pone en práctica las observaciones anteriores a través de dos novelas indoinglesas que ejemplifican este fenómeno colonial con la demonización de la diosa Kali por medio de sus protagonistas femeninas.

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Jairo Adrián Hernández, Universidad de La Laguna

Profesor Contratado Laboral Interino en la Universidad de Laguna. Asimismo, ha impartido clases en la Universidad Europea de Canarias. Se licenció en Literatura Inglesa por la Universidad de La Laguna; posteriormente amplió sus conocimientos con un máster en Literatura Inglesa y ha cursado un máster adicional en Educación Inglesa. Su tesis doctoral sobre culturas y literaturas indias es testimonio de su compromiso por descubrir narrativas matizadas en contextos coloniales. También es miembro de la Asociación Española de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre India, donde dirige el grupo de investigación sobre feminismo. Sus intereses de investigación abarcan los estudios culturales indios, las narrativas queer y las dinámicas entre Canarias y el Reino Unido desde una perspectiva decolonial.

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2025-05-30

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Adrián Hernández, J. (2025). The Imperial Gothic in British India: Female Demonization in Anita Desai’s Voices in the City (1965) and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine (1989). Philologica Canariensia, 31, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.20420/phil.can.2025.757

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