Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 533 g
Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 533 g
ISBN: 978-3-031-06816-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword: Precarity and the Human-Nonhuman Interface - Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, Editor, PMLA)
1. Introduction - Om Prakash Dwivedi (Bennett University, India)
Part I Infrastructure
2. Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis - Lisa Lau (University of Keele, UK) and Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
3. Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization, and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English - Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University, UK)
4. The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure in Urban India - Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK)
5. Rural-to-urban Migration and Precarity in The Story of My Assassins, Q & A, and The White Tiger - Robbie BH Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
6. The Precarity of the Urban Spirit: Abha Dawesar’s Babyji, Diksha Basu’s The Windfall, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar - John C Hawley (Santa Clara University, US)
Part II Body
7. Purity, Precarity and Power: Prayaag Akbar’s Leila - Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India)
8. Drag, and Other Forms of Self-Making in Precarious Times: Yashica Dutt’s Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir and Bagul, Baburao’s When I Hid My Cast - Toral Jatin Gajarwala (New York University, US)
9. “[S]titched Together by Threads of Light”: Perturbatory Narration, Queer Necropolitics and Biopower, and Transversality in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Roehampton, UK)
10. The Precarity and Predatory Behaviour of the ‘Mediahideen’ in Fatima Bhutto’s Isis Novel The Runaways - Clare Chambers (University of York, UK)
11. Imagining the Lives of Others: Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarity in Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom (2017) - Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn, Germany)
12. Pride, Prejudice and Precarity in Sri Lanka: A Reading of Yasmine Gooneratne’s Sweet and Simple Kind - Feroza Jussawalla
13. Why Do They Hate Us So Much? Precarity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Adnan Mahmoutovic
14. Precarious Culture: Bangladeshi Novels in English And in English Translation - Kaiser Haq (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Bangladesh)