Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English
Author: Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783031068171

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This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”.

Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World

Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-02-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004466395

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Poverty and precarity are among the most pressing social issues of today and have become a significant thematic focus and analytical tool in the humanities in the last two decades. This volume brings together an international group of scholars who investigate conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics. Analysing literature, visual arts and news media from across the postcolonial world, they aim at exploring the frameworks of representation that impact affective and ethical responses to disenfranchised groups and precarious subjects. Case studies focus on intersections between precarity and race, class, and gender, institutional frameworks of publishing, environmental precarity, and the framing of refugees and migrants as precarious subjects. Contributors: Clelia Clini, Geoffrey V. Davis, Dorothee Klein, Sue Kossew, Maryam Mirza, Anna Lienen, Julia Hoydis, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Sule Emmanuel Egya, Malcolm Sen, Jan Rupp, J.U. Jacobs, Julian Wacker, Andreas Musolff, Janet M. Wilson

South Asian Fiction in English

South Asian Fiction in English
Author: Alex Tickell
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137403544

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This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.

Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature

Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature
Author: Malashri Lal
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 8131775895

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The search for the location in which the self is 'at home' has been one of the primary projects of modern literature all over the world. Interpreting Homes: South Asian Literature attempts to map the narratives of the 'home' in South Asian literature from the advance of modernity on the subcontinent till the present day. It aims to read more than the domestic into representations of the home, to explore not only the geographical, but also the psychological and material connotations of 'home'. Its goal is to disassemble the concept of 'home' in all its incarnations as confinement, as stability,

Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America

Graphic Narratives about South Asia and South Asian America
Author: Kavita Daiya
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781000730012

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This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and ideology in sequential art about South Asia and South Asian America. The book features contributions which address gender violence; authoritarian politics; caste discrimination; environmentalism; racism; and urban street art, amongst others. The unique interdisciplinary span of the volume considers mass popular comic books as well as the graphic novel. This edited volume would be of interest to those studying the influence of graphic novels, graphic narratives, and comic books in South Asia, as well as researchers interested in what these forms might have to say about important issues in society. This book was originally published as a special issue of the South Asian Review journal.

Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings

Post Independence Voices in South Asian Writings
Author: Malashri Lal,Alamgir Hashmi,Victor J. Ramraj
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2001
Genre: Indic literature (English)
ISBN: UOM:39015051442385

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Writing Indians and Jews

Writing Indians and Jews
Author: A. Guttman
Publsiher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137339675

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Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization.

Middle Class Representation in Contemporary South Asian English Poetry

Middle Class Representation in Contemporary South Asian English Poetry
Author: Most. Sultana Begum
Publsiher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2013
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 3659340723

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South Asian poetry in English, because of the geopolitics and cultural developments of the region, tends to privilege the middle class in its representation. British colonization and Orientalism, bred several generations of middle class in the Subcontinent, and this class "appropriated" English language for artistic expression. When middle class elements are woven into poetic product, distinct patterns emerge. This book is a study of those patterns.