Vulnerable South Asia : precarities, resistance, and care communities / edited by Pallavi Rastogi ; foreword by Homi K. Bhabha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rastogi, Pallavi, editor.

Bhabha, Homi K., 1949- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism.

South Asian literature (English).

South Asia--In literature.

South Asia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 161 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Bodies That Do Not Matter: Gender and Sexual Precarity

1. Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth / Rahul K. Gairola

2. Post-Magic: The Female Naxalite at 50 in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Neel Mukherjee's A State of Freedom / Meghan Gorman-DaRif

3. The Ethics of Representation and the Figure of the Woman: The Question of Agency in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" / Anirban Bhattacharjee

SECTION II In A Class of Their Own: Belabouring Precarity

4. The Literary Lumpen: The Naksha Narratives of Binoy Ghosh / Auritro Majumder

5. "No One in the House Knew Her Name": Servant Problems in R. K. Narayan's Short Stories / Ambreen Hai

Poetic Interlude II: Spaces / K. Satchidanandan

SECTION III Region and Religion: Eco-Migrant and Minority Precarity

6. Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature / Tana Trivedi

7. Representing the "Other": Minority Discourse in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel / Saman Ashfaq

SECTION IV Teaching Troubles: The Pedagogy of Precarity

8. Teaching Precarity, Resistance, and Community: Rohini Mohan's The Seasons of Trouble and Genocide Pedagogy / Colleen Lutz Clemens

9. Teaching Beyond Empathy: The Classroom As Care Community / Matthew Dischinger

Poetic Interlude III: Birds Come After Me / K. Satchidanandan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0367506661

9780367506667

OCLC:

1152971671

Publisher Number:

99986913961