Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture

Introduction: Sk. Sagir Ali and Swayamdipta Das
Part I: Ecological Disasters and the Statist Contours of Conditional Empathy
Chapter One: Ecological Crises to Socio-Political Disaster: Revisiting the Politics of Empathy Around Marichjhapi Massacre and the Dalit Question, Madhumita Biswas
Chapter Two: Ecological Disaster And The River of Stories-Resuscitating Empathy Through Graphic Narratives, Pritha Banerjee
Chapter Three: Simulations of the Future: Climate Change and Disaster in Contemporary Indian Science Fiction in English, Swati Moitra
Chapter Four: Magic Realism and Trauma: A Study of Comingling of Spaces in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island, Nilanjan Chakraborty
Part II: Migration, Displacement, and the Cosmopolitan Gaze: The Monolingualism of the Disaster Imagination
Chapter Five: Can Disaster be Known in the Light of the Language? Unity and Possibility of the Future in Shaktipada Rajguru's Dandak Theke Marichjhapi, Joydip Datta and Samrat Sengupta
Chapter Six: Fear of Refugee and Disaster: Monstrosity, Risky Body, and Moral Panic in Exit West, Sk. Sagir Ali
Chapter Seven: Systemic Strategies of Identity Constructions and Deliberate Exclusions: Understanding the Socio, Economic and Political Circumstances of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Rajeesh CS
Part III: Disasters and Other Heterotopias: Disaster Poetics and the Re-writing of the Postcolonial Nation-State
Chapter Eight: Re-imagining Disaster Capitalism through Fecopoetics and the Literature of Waste: Fyatarus and the beyond of the Empathy Machine in the Short Stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya, Swayamdipta Das
Chapter Nine: War, Religion, and Terror: Syed Shamsul Haq's Two Novellas Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
Chapter Ten: Global Catastrophe, Local Residues: Re-Thinking The 'Global-Local' Dynamic In Imagining Catastrophes Through Bishnu Dey's 'Cassandra' Poems', Subhayu Bhattacharjee
Chapter Eleven: The Vanishing Dead: Memory, Necropolitics and the Modern State, Debamitra Kar
Part IV: Pandemics, Public Health Disasters, and Biopolitical Regimes of Control
Chapter Twelve: Marked by Disposable Deaths: Mourning and Community in Times of Pandemic, Shinjini Basu
Chapter Thirteen: Gendered Empathy and its Impact on Efficient Pandemic Management, Sudeshna Mukherjee
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