Decolonize the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism
![Decolonizing the Novel: Writing Against Western Strictures of Realism A photo portrait of Namrata Poddar, a South Asian woman wearing pencil eyeliner and dangly silver earrings with a blue patterned dress.](https://www.pw.org/files/styles/magazine_article_teaser_portrait/public/article_thumbs/poddar_elenabessi_phr.png?itok=W_41YKoi)
The author of Border Less describes how audience responses to her debut novel’s play with form led her to wonder about the greater implications of the Western fixation on realism as the accepted novel style.