Chaos as Social and Cultural Conflict in Aravind Adiga’s "Between the Assassinations" and Tabish Khair’s "The Bus Stopped"

In my paper I explore how national problems, social contrasts and political turmoil are expressed by the different forms of “locality” narrated by Aravind Adiga and Tabish Khair’s novels and I investigate the modalities through which these chaotic spaces are constructed, considering the relationships between place and identity, nation and community.