Vulnerable South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities
Redaktion: Rastogi, Pallavi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovatively organized volume brings together reflections on crisis and community in South Asia by some the most important authors and scholars writing about the Indian subcontinent today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000197235
• Artikelnr.: 61849312

Autorenporträt

Pallavi Rastogi is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA. She has written two books: Postcolonial Disaster and Afrindian Fictions and is also the co-editor of the volume, Before Windrush . She has authored various articles on South Asian and Southern African literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial



Pradyumna S. Chauhan



Guest Editor's Column: Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia



Pallavi Rastogi



Poetic Interlude I: After the Deluge



K. Satchidanandan



Foreword



Homi K. Bhabha



Section I - Bodies That Do Not Matter: Gender and Sexual Precarity

1. Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth



Rahul K. Gairola



2. Post-Magic: The Female Naxalite at 50 in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Neel Mukherjee's A State of Freedom



Meghan Gorman-DaRif



3. The Ethics of Representation and the Figure of the Woman: The Question of Agency in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?"



Anirban Bhattacharjee



Section II - In A Class of Their Own: Belaboring Precarity

4. The Literary Lumpen: The Naksha Narratives of Binoy Ghosh



Auritro Majumdar



5. "No One in the House Knew Her Name": Servant Problems in R. K. Narayan's Short Stories



Ambreen Hai



Poetic Interlude II: Spaces



K. Satchidanandan



Section III - Region and Religion: Eco-Migrant and Minority Precarity

6. Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature



Tana Trivedi



7. Representing the "Other": Minority Discourse in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel



Saman Ashfaq



Section IV - Teaching Troubles: The Pedagogy of Precarity

8. Teaching Precarity, Resistance, and Community: Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble and Genocide Pedagogy



Colleen Lutz Clemens



9. Teaching Beyond Empathy: The Classroom As Care Community



Matthew Dischinger



Poetic Interlude III: Birds Come After Me



K. Satchidanandan



Afterword: Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Climate, Terror, and Planetarity



Gaurav Desai