Pandemics and literature : regional and global perspectives / edited by Kamlesh Mohan and Saurav Kumar Rai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohan, Kamlesh, editor.

Rai, Saurav Kumar, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2025.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. Popular Responses, Rumours and Political Resentments : 1. Imagining an epidemic: literary representations of plague in colonial Bengal / Arabinda Samanta

2. Plague, British intervention and variegated Indigenous responses in colonial Lahore / Maysoon Sheikh

3. The plague epidemic in Bombay and Poona, 1896-97: perceptions of the contemporary print media / Mridula Ramanna

4. Echoes of the drum beat of life: an exploration into Hindi literature on epidemics / Binda B. Paranjape

Part II. Social Transgressions and Changing Human Relations : 5. Pandemic poetry: tropes and transgressions / Akshaya Kumar

6. Pandemics, literature and re-visions of society / Kamalakar Bhat

7. Pandemics: time to die, time to love / Gurupdesh Singh

8. Epidemics, fascism, absurdity and resistance: Albert Camus's The Plague / Parminder Singh

9. The Rajrog: reflections on tuberculosis in Bengali literature / Suvankar Dey

Part III. Divine Punishment, Dislocations and Agonies : 10. Epidemics in tribal folklore: sub-Himalayan Bengal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sahara Ahmed

11. Divine punishment and beyond: epidemics and the survey of Urdu fiction / Shafey Kidwai

12. The pandemic: a literary perspective / Manju Jaidka

13. Memories of the unforeseen: epidemics, graveyard and religion in Malayalam literature / Shaheen Kelachan Thodika

14. Metaphorising an epidemic: Khalid Jawed's Ek Khanjar Paani Mein (A Dagger in Water) / Mohammad Afaan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003540779 (electronic bk.)

1003540775 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032748801

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