This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.
This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.
Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India. Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.
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Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta Das Part I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional Empathy Chapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita Biswas Chapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories-Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha Banerjee Chapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati Moitra Chapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island, Nilanjan Chakraborty Part II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster Imagination Chapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru's Dandak Theke Marichjhapi , Joydip Datta and Samrat Sengupta Chapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir Ali Chapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CS Part III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-State Chapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta Das Chapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq's Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam Chapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The 'Global-Local' Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey's 'Cassandra' Poems', Subhayu Bhattacharjee Chapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra Kar Part IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of Control Chapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini Basu Chapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna Mukherjee About the Contributors
Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta Das Part I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional Empathy Chapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita Biswas Chapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories-Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha Banerjee Chapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati Moitra Chapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island, Nilanjan Chakraborty Part II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster Imagination Chapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru's Dandak Theke Marichjhapi , Joydip Datta and Samrat Sengupta Chapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir Ali Chapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CS Part III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-State Chapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta Das Chapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq's Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam Chapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The 'Global-Local' Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey's 'Cassandra' Poems', Subhayu Bhattacharjee Chapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra Kar Part IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of Control Chapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini Basu Chapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna Mukherjee About the Contributors
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