Perception of Places and Locations in Indira Goswami's Select Novels

This chapter addresses the issues that are relevant to the novelist whose sensibilities are shaped up by the cultural spaces of places. Exploring the cultural spaces in the select novels, The Shadow of Dark God and the Sin (1986), The Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker (2004) and The Man from Chinnamasta (2006), the study aims to examine the fictional representation of landscapes, both abstract and concrete, in terms of imagining and experiencing these like a flaneur. This chapter also attempts to look at how Indira Goswami weaves the spatial stories of the places, her perceptions of these, around her fictional narratives.