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Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

Ali, Sk Sagir
Ali, Sk Sagir
Das, Swayamdipta

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1666951471
ISBN13: 9781666951479
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Apr 11 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the myriad ways in which disaster events (both man-made and natural) are perceived and represented in South Asian literature and culture. This book explores the affective mechanisms of empathy and imaginary identification which are conditioned and reiterated by biopolitical statist regimes of power to preempt and coopt any radical agential or cognitive intervention which might be evinced by the event of the disaster. The contributors also examine South Asian disasters vis-a-vis the registers of ecological crises, migration events, civil and liberation wars, and pandemics to understand the multifarious ways in which such 'disasters' are used as tropes to peddle certain structures of interpellation in the collective consciousness.

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