Contagion narratives

• Titel: Contagion narratives
• Titelzusatz: the society, culture and ecology of the global south
• Mitwirkende: Varma, Sreejith [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Sircar, Ajanta [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by R. Sreejith Varma and Ajanta Sircar
• Verlagsort: New York ; London
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: xiii, 179 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-032-25867-6
• ISBN: 978-1-032-25869-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)Südasien / (g)Subsaharisches Afrika / (s)Literatur / (s)Videospiel / (s)Pandemie <Motiv>
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Contagion narratives. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 |(DLC)2022032269
• Sach-SW: Essays
• K10plus-PPN: 1819954714

Abstract

"This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha Chatterjee's books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of the world. Featuring many scholars (of the humanities and social sciences) in the Global South, these chapters take as their intellectual focus the political-social as well as the ethical challenges posed by the contagions in the "East." Through analyses of literary narratives/films/Twitter feeds/video games, Contagion Narratives traces the manufactured narratives of victimization by majority-communities and the lethal divides consequently being drawn between a reconstituted "authentic majority" and the more vulnerable minority 'other' in these societies. The essays in this collection are animated by imaginations of liveable alternatives on a planet on the brink. This volume traces lineages to Buchi Emecheta and Rabindranath Tagore rather than Albert Camus, to Satyajit Ray and the indie traditions rather than Hollywood, and to Buddhism rather than Christianity, track the historic journeys of "modernity." Using an eclectic set of analytical tools and strategies of textual criticism, this volume argues that ideas of "democracy," even while they carry echoes of other societies, are markedly different as they travel from Gaddafi's Libya to Wuhan under lockdown to colonial Bengal"--