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Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities
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COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial
Vorbestellbar | Lieferzeit: Vorbestellbar - Erscheint laut Verlag im/am 30.08.2024. I
Erstverkaufstag: 30.08.2024
Artikel-Nr:
9781032728131
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.08.2024
Seiten:
123
Autor:
Aleks Wansbrough
Format:
246x174x0 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bennett University, India. He is the author of Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (2022); Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014). His latest publication includes a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature on "Partition: 75 Years On", and a special issue of Metacritic Journal on "Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature" He is the Vice Chair of the international research group, Challenging Precarity (UK)
The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art.
Introduction - Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19 1. Pandemic: Invisibility and silence 2. Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu's Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar's Leila 3. Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps 4. The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020) 5. Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-19 6. Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing 7. Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith's Intimations 8. The art of COVID-19 Afterword - COVID-19 and the other virus