Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English write by Om Prakash Dwivedi. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”.
Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities
Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities write by Om Prakash Dwivedi. This book was released on 2024-08-30. Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art. COVID-19 was a type of apocalypse, a catastrophic destructive event that produced dystopian measures in its wake and drew uncanny parallels to dystopic works of literature and speculative fiction. Yet the pandemic was apocalyptic in another sense too. The word apocalypse derives from apokalupsis, which means disclosure or uncovering. In this way, COVID-19 also revealed the dystopian processes already at work in the world, including digital forms of surveillance as well as the asymmetries within populations and divides in health outcomes between the Global North and Global South. Indeed, societies that have experienced the horrors of settler colonialism have already survived apocalypses. COVID-19 serves then as a premonition for our climate emergency as well as an echo of other apocalyptic situations, both real and imagined. This book consists of essays from acclaimed theorists and scholars writing amid the pandemic and exposes the asymmetries of our divided world. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature including post-apocalyptic and speculative fiction. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing and are accompanied by a new afterword.
South-Asian Fiction in English
South-Asian Fiction in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South-Asian Fiction in English write by Alex Tickell. This book was released on 2016-04-30. South-Asian Fiction in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.
Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World write by . This book was released on 2022-02-22. Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson
Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America
Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America write by Kavita Daiya. This book was released on 2020-06-29. Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and ideology in sequential art about South Asia and South Asian America. The book features contributions which address gender violence; authoritarian politics; caste discrimination; environmentalism; racism; and urban street art, amongst others. The unique interdisciplinary span of the volume considers mass popular comic books as well as the graphic novel. This edited volume would be of interest to those studying the influence of graphic novels, graphic narratives, and comic books in South Asia, as well as researchers interested in what these forms might have to say about important issues in society. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review journal.
