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Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence -

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Nishi Pulugurtha (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2022
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-27856-8 (ISBN)
CHF 66,30 inkl. MwSt
Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.

This book critically engages with stories and narratives that have dealt with pandemics or epidemics in the past and in contemporary times to see how these texts present human life coming to terms with upheaval, fear and uncertainty. Set in various places and times, the literature examined in this book explores the themes of human suffering and resilience, inequality, corruption, the ruin of civilizations and the rituals of grief and remembrance. The chapters in this volume cover a wide spatio-temporal trajectory analysing the writings of Fakir Mohan Senapati and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Jack London, Albert Camus, Margaret Atwood, Sarat Chand, Pandita Ramabai and Christina Sweeney-Baird, among others. It gives readers a glimpse into both grounded and fantastical realities where disease and death clash with human psychology and where philosophy, politics and social values are critiqued and problematized.

This book will be of interest to students of English literature, social science, gender studies, cultural studies, psychology, society, politics and philosophy. General readers too will find this exciting as it covers authors from across the world.

Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India.

List of Contributors

Introduction

Nishi Pulugurtha

I - Memory and Contagion






"Vernacular Realities" in Epidemic Literature: Reading Fakir Mohan Senapati’s "Rebati" and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala’s Kulli Bhaat
Sipra Mukherjee




The Trauma and the Triumph: Katherine Anne Porter’s "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"
Tania Chakravertty


Pandemic and the Man-less Society: Problematizing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Christina Sweeney-Baird’s The End of Men
Goutam Karmakar

II - Uncanny Dilemmas




The Decameron : Re-reading the Uncanny Riddle of Plague
Riti Agarwala




Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Dystopian Fiction and Pandemics
Sarottama Majumdar




Epidemic Anxiety and Narrative Aesthetics in Sarat Chandra's Palli Samaj and Pandit Mashay
Subham Dutta




Albert Camus' Rejoinder to the Absent God and the Absurdity of Existence in The Plague
Sacaria Joseph

III - Moving Between Language and Media




"It Mattered Not From Whence It Came; But All Agreed It Was Come . . . ": Plague Narratives as Narratives of Media and Foreignness
Amit R. Baishya




Forgotten Difference: The Plague in Hindi and Urdu Literature
Ishan Mehandru




The Periwig Maker and Defoe: A Déjà vu Upon the Present
Sanghita Sanyal

IV - Fear, Disaster and Dystopia




Pestilence, Death, Fear and a Testimony of Female Outrage: The 1897 Bombay Plague in the Writing of Pandita Ramabai
Subarna Bhattacharya




Pandemic as a Disaster: Narratives of Suffering and "Risk" in Twilight in Delhi
Sumantra Baral




Pandemic Fear: Death and the Ruin of Civilization in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague
Paramita Dutta De




Pandemic and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Sayan Aich Bhowmik

V - COVID-19, Public health and Social justice




Power and the Pandemic Through Two Gothic Tropes
Tabish Khair




Following the Dead: Digital Obituaries as Rituals of Selective Remembrance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Yash Gupta

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-032-27856-0 / 1032278560
ISBN-13 978-1-032-27856-8 / 9781032278568
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