1st Edition
Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture Can Wellness be Far Behind?
Chapter 1. Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture, Anindita Chatterjee & Nilanjana Chatterjee Section I. Social Science Perspective Chapter 2. Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population, Bill Ashcroft; Chapter 3. Vaccine Nation and its Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire, Mandira Mitra; Chapter 4. Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century, Anindita Chatterjee; Chapter 5. Žižek’s Pandemic!, the ‘New Normal’ Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives, Anasuya Bhar; Chapter 6. Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures, Debasis Charaborty; Chapter 7. Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to India, Chitra Roy; Chapter 8. Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print Media in India?, Rumela Sen & Nusrat Farooq; Chapter 9. Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care: The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India, Amrita Bagchi Section II Cultural Perspective Chapter 10. Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Subhajit Sen Gupta; Chapter 11. Their Mother’s Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet, Chandrima Das; Chapter 12. "stand aside death…today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine Kire’s Novels, Nilanjana Chatterjee; Chapter 13. Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience: Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives, Debasri Basu; Chapter 14. Always in Search of her Ithaca: Women's Spiritual Wellbeing in Journey to Ithaca: A Pilgrimage in Search of Identity and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything, Nibedita Mukherjee; Chapter 15. Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life Narratives from India, Rajesh V. Nair & Lekshmi R. Nair; Chapter 16. Sustainable Eating and Wellness: Examining Nutrition Strategies in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating and Ruth Ozeki’s A Year Of Meats, Shymasree Basu; Chapter 17. Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor, Anuradha Mazumder
Biography
Anindita Chatterjee is Associate Professor and Head in the Department of English, Durgapur Government College, India. Her research interests centre on British Literature of the Romantic and the Victorian Period, Indian Writing in English, Films, Gender Studies and Popular Culture, and she has published on Socialist Ecofeminism. She has also co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions.
Nilanjana Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English, Durgapur Government College, India. She is the author of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Routledge, forthcoming). Some of her ongoing projects include work on Angami Kire’s formation of digital ethnic identity and on women and natural resource management in Naga folktales and stories. She has co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions.
