Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Can Wellness be Far Behind?
Redaktion: Chatterjee, Anindita; Chatterjee, Nilanjana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. A novel contribution on the cultural factors in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Cultural Studies, Health and Society and South Asian Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000770612
• Artikelnr.: 65442993

Autorenporträt

Anindita Chatterjee is Associate Professor and Head in the Department of English, Durgapur Government College, India. Her research interests centre on British Literature of the Romantic and the Victorian Period, Indian Writing in English, Films, Gender Studies and Popular Culture, and she has published on Socialist Ecofeminism. She has also co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Nilanjana Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English, Durgapur Government College, India. She is the author of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Routledge, forthcoming). S ome of her ongoing projects include work on Angami Kire's formation of digital ethnic identity and on women and natural resource management in Naga folktales and stories. She has co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture
Section I. Social Science Perspective Chapter 2. Colonialism and Disease:
Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population; Chapter 3. Vaccine Nation and its
Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire; Chapter 4. Spaces of
Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th
Century; Chapter 5. iek's Pandemic!, the 'New Normal' Dilemma and Some
Indian Perspectives; Chapter 6. Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India
during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures; Chapter 7. Federalism and
Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to
India; Chapter 8. Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print
Media in India?; Chapter 9. Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care:
The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India Section II. Cultural
Perspective Chapter 10. Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare's
Macbeth; Chapter 11. Their Mother's Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and
Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet; Chapter 12. "stand aside
death...today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine
Kire's Novels; Chapter 13. Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience:
Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives; Chapter 14. Always in Search
of her Ithaca: Women's Spiritual Wellbeing in Journey to Ithaca: A
Pilgrimage in Search of Identity and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search
for Everything; Chapter 15. Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal
Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life
Narratives from India; Chapter 16. Sustainable Eating and Wellness:
Examining Nutrition Strategies in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating and Ruth Ozeki's A Year Of Meats;
Chapter 17. Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic
Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor