Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities

The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art.

Autorentext

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bennett University, India. He is the author of Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (2022); Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014). His latest publication includes a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature on "Partition: 75 Years On", and a special issue of Metacritic Journal on "Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature" He is the Vice Chair of the international research group, Challenging Precarity (UK)

Aleks Wansbrough is a Writer and Cultural Theorist. The author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen: Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age (2021), his current research concerns ideological analyses of digital media and film. He is an editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture published by Penn State University Press.

Inhalt

Introduction - Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19 1. Pandemic: Invisibility and silence 2. Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu's Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar's Leila 3. Infection rebellion in Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps 4. The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020) 5. Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-19 6. Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing 7. Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith's Intimations 8. The art of COVID-19 Afterword - COVID-19 and the other virus