Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture:The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

by: Sk Ali (Author),Swayamdipta Das(Author)

Publisher: Lexington Books

Publication Date: 15 May 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 210 pages

ISBN-10: 1666951471

ISBN-13: 9781666951479

Book Description

This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.
About the Author Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India.Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.

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