Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

Foreword: Precarity and the Human-Nonhuman Interface - Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, Editor, PMLA).- 1. Introduction - Om Prakash Dwivedi (Bennett University, India).- Part I Infrastructure.- 2. Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis - Lisa Lau (University of Keele, UK) and Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal).- 3. Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization, and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English - Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University, UK).- 4. The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure in Urban India - Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK).- 5. Rural-to-urban Migration and Precarity in The Story of My Assassins, Q & A, and The White Tiger - Robbie BH Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore).- 6. The Precarity of the Urban Spirit: Abha Dawesar's Babyji, Diksha Basu's The Windfall, and Vivek Shanbhag's Ghachar Ghochar - John C Hawley (Santa Clara University, US).- Part II Body.- 7. Purity, Precarity and Power: Prayaag Akbar's Leila - Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India).- 8. Drag, and Other Forms of Self-Making in Precarious Times : Yashica Dutt's Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir and Bagul, Baburao's When I Hid My Cast - Toral Jatin Gajarwala (New York University, US).- 9. "[S]titched Together by Threads of Light": Perturbatory Narration, Queer Necropolitics and Biopower, and Transversality in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Roehampton, UK).- 10. The Precarity and Predatory Behaviour of the 'Mediahideen' in Fatima Bhutto's Isis Novel The Runaways - Clare Chambers (University of York, UK).- 11. Imagining the Lives of Others: Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarity in Neel Mukherjee's A State of Freedom (2017) - Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn, Germany).- 12. Pride, Prejudice and Precarity in Sri Lanka: A Reading of Yasmine Gooneratne's Sweet and Simple Kind - Feroza Jussawalla.- 13. Why Do They Hate Us So Much? Precarity in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Adnan Mahmoutovic.- 14. Precarious Culture: Bangladeshi Novels in English And in English Translation - Kaiser Haq (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Bangladesh).