Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination |
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| Editor:
| Ali, Sk Sagir
Das, Swayamdipta |
| Contribution by:
| Ali, Sk Sagir
Das, Swayamdipta
Banerjee, Pritha
Basu, Shinjini
Bhattacharjee, Subhayu
Biswas, Madhumita
Chakraborty, Nilanjan
Datta, Joydip
Islam, Mohammad Shafiqul
Kar, Debamitra
Moitra, Swati
Mukherjee, Sudeshna
Sarngadharan, Rajeesh C.
Sengupta, Samrat |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6669-5147-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $177.00 |
Book Description:
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This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.
This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.