Overview
- Explores various forms of precarity, including socio-economic & political uncertainties
- Shows how South Asian literature reflects human vulnerability
- Theorises literary representations of social suffering and highlights the vulnerability of lives in this region
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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”.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Precarious Infrastructure
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Precarious Body
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at Bennett University, India. He is the co-author of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). His latest publications include a special issue on “Fractured Identities in Postcolonial and Postapocalyptic Settings: Framing the post-Corona World” (Journal of Postcolonial Writing).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English
Editors: Om Prakash Dwivedi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06817-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06816-4Published: 16 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06819-5Published: 17 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06817-1Published: 15 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 300
Topics: Asian Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature