@article{424375,
  author    = {Dengel-Janic, Ellen},
  journal   = {Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {73-86},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  title     = {Voices of Strangers in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled (2005)},
  url       = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zaa.2013.61.issue-1/zaa.2013.61.1.73/zaa.2013.61.1.73.xml},
  volume    = {61},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {In Rana Dasgupta’s recent novel Tokyo Cancelled (2005), a group of strangers meet at an unnamed airport and spend the night telling each other stories. In this article, I will examine Dasgupta’s narrative strategies that help to establish a connection between the passengers of a cancelled flight. The idea of a shared, albeit temporary, community, I will argue, is illustrated in Dasgupta’s novel by the act of communication through storytelling. Dasgupta leaves the storytelling to the voices of strangers and thereby provides a means to overcome the unfamiliarity of the situation depicted in the frame tale, while simultaneously inviting the reader to engage with the strange and disturbing tales that make up the core text. In its totality, the novel moves between the two poles of conviviality and strangeness but never falls into the trap of fetishizing the figure of the stranger and thus strip it of its particularity and cultural significance},
  doi       = {10.1515/zaa.2013.61.1.73},
  inlg      = {English [eng]},
  src       = {degruyter}
}