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Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence book cover

1st Edition

Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

Edited By Nishi Pulugurtha Copyright 2023
204 Pages
by Routledge India

204 Pages
by Routledge India

204 Pages
by Routledge India
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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... Read more

List of Contributors

Introduction

Nishi Pulugurtha

I - Memory and Contagion

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

    2. Sipra Mukherjee

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

    3. Tania Chakravertty

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

    4. Goutam Karmakar

    II - Uncanny Dilemmas

  4. The Decameron : Re-reading the Uncanny Riddle of Plague

    5. Riti Agarwala

  5. Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Dystopian Fiction and Pandemics

    6. Sarottama Majumdar

  6. Epidemic Anxiety and Narrative Aesthetics in Sarat Chandra's Palli Samaj and Pandit Mashay

    7. Subham Dutta

  7. Albert Camus' Rejoinder to the Absent God and the Absurdity of Existence in The Plague

    8. Sacaria Joseph

    III - Moving Between Language and Media

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

    9. Amit R. Baishya

  9. Forgotten Difference: The Plague in Hindi and Urdu Literature

    10. Ishan Mehandru

  10. The Periwig Maker and Defoe: A Déjà vu Upon the Present

    11. Sanghita Sanyal

    IV - Fear, Disaster and Dystopia

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

    12. Subarna Bhattacharya

  12. Pandemic as a Disaster: Narratives of Suffering and "Risk" in Twilight in Delhi

    13. Sumantra Baral

  13. Pandemic Fear: Death and the Ruin of Civilization in Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague

    14. Paramita Dutta De

  14. Pandemic and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

    15. Sayan Aich Bhowmik

    V - COVID-19, Public health and Social justice

  15. Power and the Pandemic Through Two Gothic Tropes

    16. Tabish Khair

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

Yash Gupta

Index

　

　

Biography

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

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