Mountains as a Space of Otherness: Feluda in the Mountain Terrain

Abstract

Mountains as a space have been explored in various forms of literature, either through a realist lens to portray living conditions or through a romanticised lens that highlights the otherness of the mountain terrain. In the context of detective fiction featuring Feluda set in the mountain terrain, Ray manipulates the image of the mountain through the lens of a city dweller. The urban curiosity and the sense of otherness in the binary of populated, commercialised plains and the scarcely inhabited mountain play a pivotal role. The proposed paper aims to study the detective fictions of the Feluda series set in the mountains through the lens of ecocriticism and the otherness of mountain terrain.