Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English

Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English / Om Prakash Dwivedi, editor.

This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international s...

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Other Authors: Dwivedi, O. P. (Om Prakash) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Subjects:
English literature > South Asian authors > History and criticism.
Poor in literature.
English literature > South Asian authors
Poor in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Precarity and the Human-Nonhuman Interface - Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, Editor, PMLA)
  • 1. Introduction - Om Prakash Dwivedi (Bennett University, India)
  • Part I Infrastructure
  • 2. Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry: Arundhati Roys The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Jeet Thayils Narcopolis - Lisa Lau (University of Keele, UK) and Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 3. Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization, and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English - Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University, UK)
  • 4. The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure in Urban India - Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK)
  • 5. Rural-to-urban Migration and Precarity in The Story of My Assassins, Q & A, and The White Tiger - Robbie BH Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • 6. The Precarity of the Urban Spirit: Abha Dawesars Babyji, Diksha Basus The Windfall, and Vivek Shanbhags Ghachar Ghochar - John C Hawley (Santa Clara University, US)
  • Part II Body
  • 7. Purity, Precarity and Power: Prayaag Akbars Leila - Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India)
  • 8. Drag, and Other Forms of Self-Making in Precarious Times : Yashica Dutts Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir and Bagul, Baburaos When I Hid My Cast - Toral Jatin Gajarwala (New York University, US)
  • 9. [S]titched Together by Threads of Light : Perturbatory Narration, Queer Necropolitics and Biopower, and Transversality in Arundhati Roys The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Alberto Fernandez Carbajal (University of Roehampton, UK)
  • 10. The Precarity and Predatory Behaviour of the Mediahideen in Fatima Bhuttos Isis Novel The Runaways - Clare Chambers (University of York, UK)
  • 11. Imagining the Lives of Others: Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarity in Neel Mukherjees A State of Freedom (2017) - Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn, Germany)
  • 12. Pride, Prejudice and Precarity in Sri Lanka: A Reading of Yasmine Gooneratnes Sweet and Simple Kind - Feroza Jussawalla
  • 13. Why Do They Hate Us So Much? Precarity in Mohsin Hamids The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Adnan Mahmoutovic
  • 14. Precarious Culture: Bangladeshi Novels in English And in English Translation - Kaiser Haq (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Bangladesh).

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