Cameron McFarlane, Ann-Barbara Graff,
... the ex-patriot British in the fictional city of Ranchipur. What makes The Rains Came stand out—enough that it received the ... history, this time, avers the Maharani at end of the film, Ranchipur has been “built to stand.” The Rains Came thus follows the trajectory of most Hollywood disaster films of the 1930s by ... overdetermined) nature of the physical disasters inflicted upon Ranchipur works hard to refigure and recuperate the looming political disasters of the coming war in Europe and the simultaneous failure of British imperial rule in India. The Rains Came demands to be read as a pre- ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2012 - | Film & history
... miraculous life give mysticism to the novel. The Rains Came (1937) is set in Ranchipur, India, and explores humanity’s potential to fight against miseries, poverty, religious prejudices, superstitions, diseases, and natural calamities. This is the first of Bromfield’s novels to introduce a large array ...
Tópico(s): American and British Literature Analysis
2021 - Canadian Comparative Literature Association | Canadian review of comparative literature