1st Edition
Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial
Introduction - Living in dystopia: Fractured identities and COVID-19
Om Prakash Dwivedi and Aleks Wansbrough
1. Pandemic: Invisibility and silence
Seán Cubitt
2. Thinking the delirious pandemic governance by numbers with Samit Basu’s Chosen Spirits and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila
Tereza Østbø Kuldova
3. Infection rebellion in Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps
Claire Chambers and Freya Lowden
4. The Adivasi and the undead: From (post)colonial carnage to Necrocene apocalypse in Betaal (2020)
Johan Höglund
5. Septopia and the wastialized Other: Allegorizing neo-liberalism in the age of COVID-19
Aleks Wansbrough
6. Fragmentations, phantom limbs, re-memberings: Negotiating bodies, representation, and subjectivity in Caribbean British writing
Silvia Gerlsbeck
7. Flattening the curse: Cooling down with Zadie Smith’s Intimations
Pallavi Rastogi
8. The art of COVID-19
Pramod K. Nayar
Afterword - COVID-19 and the other virus
Om Prakash Dwivedi and Aleks Wansbrough
Biography
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.
