Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.
Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India.
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List of Contributors Introduction Nishi Pulugurtha I - Memory and Contagion 1. "Vernacular Realities" in Epidemic Literature: Reading Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati" and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala's Kulli Bhaat Sipra Mukherjee 2. The Trauma and the Triumph: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Tania Chakravertty 3. Pandemic and the Man-less Society: Problematizing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men Goutam Karmakar II - Uncanny Dilemmas 4. The Decameron : Re-reading the Uncanny Riddle of Plague Riti Agarwala 5. Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Dystopian Fiction and Pandemics Sarottama Majumdar 6. Epidemic Anxiety and Narrative Aesthetics in Sarat Chandra's Palli Samaj and Pandit Mashay Subham Dutta 7. Albert Camus' Rejoinder to the Absent God and the Absurdity of Existence in The Plague Sacaria Joseph III - Moving Between Language and Media 8. "It Mattered Not From Whence It Came; But All Agreed It Was Come . . . ": Plague Narratives as Narratives of Media and Foreignness Amit R. Baishya 9. Forgotten Difference: The Plague in Hindi and Urdu Literature Ishan Mehandru 10. The Periwig Maker and Defoe: A Déjà vu Upon the Present Sanghita Sanyal IV - Fear, Disaster and Dystopia 11. Pestilence, Death, Fear and a Testimony of Female Outrage: The 1897 Bombay Plague in the Writing of Pandita Ramabai Subarna Bhattacharya 12. Pandemic as a Disaster: Narratives of Suffering and "Risk" in Twilight in Delhi Sumantra Baral 13. Pandemic Fear: Death and the Ruin of Civilization in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague Paramita Dutta De 14. Pandemic and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Sayan Aich Bhowmik V - COVID-19, Public health and Social justice 15. Power and the Pandemic Through Two Gothic Tropes Tabish Khair 16. Following the Dead: Digital Obituaries as Rituals of Selective Remembrance During the COVID-19 Pandemic Yash Gupta Index
List of Contributors Introduction Nishi Pulugurtha I - Memory and Contagion 1. "Vernacular Realities" in Epidemic Literature: Reading Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati" and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala's Kulli Bhaat Sipra Mukherjee 2. The Trauma and the Triumph: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Tania Chakravertty 3. Pandemic and the Man-less Society: Problematizing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men Goutam Karmakar II - Uncanny Dilemmas 4. The Decameron : Re-reading the Uncanny Riddle of Plague Riti Agarwala 5. Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Dystopian Fiction and Pandemics Sarottama Majumdar 6. Epidemic Anxiety and Narrative Aesthetics in Sarat Chandra's Palli Samaj and Pandit Mashay Subham Dutta 7. Albert Camus' Rejoinder to the Absent God and the Absurdity of Existence in The Plague Sacaria Joseph III - Moving Between Language and Media 8. "It Mattered Not From Whence It Came; But All Agreed It Was Come . . . ": Plague Narratives as Narratives of Media and Foreignness Amit R. Baishya 9. Forgotten Difference: The Plague in Hindi and Urdu Literature Ishan Mehandru 10. The Periwig Maker and Defoe: A Déjà vu Upon the Present Sanghita Sanyal IV - Fear, Disaster and Dystopia 11. Pestilence, Death, Fear and a Testimony of Female Outrage: The 1897 Bombay Plague in the Writing of Pandita Ramabai Subarna Bhattacharya 12. Pandemic as a Disaster: Narratives of Suffering and "Risk" in Twilight in Delhi Sumantra Baral 13. Pandemic Fear: Death and the Ruin of Civilization in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague Paramita Dutta De 14. Pandemic and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Sayan Aich Bhowmik V - COVID-19, Public health and Social justice 15. Power and the Pandemic Through Two Gothic Tropes Tabish Khair 16. Following the Dead: Digital Obituaries as Rituals of Selective Remembrance During the COVID-19 Pandemic Yash Gupta Index
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