Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English / Om Prakash Dwivedi, editor.
Dwivedi, O. P. (Om Prakash), editor.
2022
PR129.A785
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Title Representations of precarity in South Asian literature in English / Om Prakash Dwivedi, editor.
ISBN 9783031068171 (electronic bk.)
3031068173 (electronic bk.)
9783031068164
3031068165
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06817-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-06817-1 doi
Call Number PR129.A785
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/954
Summary 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". Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at Bennett University, India. He is the co-author of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Note Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- Imagining the Lives of Others: Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarity in Neel Mukherjee's A State of Freedom -- Introduction -- Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarious Lives -- Mode and Perspective -- Negotiating Otherness and Epistemic Authority -- Agency and Gender -- Conclusion -- References -- Pride, Prejudice and Precarity in Sri Lanka: A Reading of Yasmine Gooneratne's Sweet and Simple Kind -- Introduction -- References -- Why Do They Hate Us So Much? Precarity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist -- References
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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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