Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence

List of Contributors

Introduction

Nishi Pulugurtha

I - Memory and Contagion






"Vernacular Realities" in Epidemic Literature: Reading Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati" and Suryakant Tripathi Nirala's Kulli Bhaat
Sipra Mukherjee




The Trauma and the Triumph: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"
Tania Chakravertty


Pandemic and the Man-less Society: Problematizing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men
Goutam Karmakar

II - Uncanny Dilemmas




The Decameron : Re-reading the Uncanny Riddle of Plague
Riti Agarwala




Mary Shelley's The Last Man: Dystopian Fiction and Pandemics
Sarottama Majumdar




Epidemic Anxiety and Narrative Aesthetics in Sarat Chandra's Palli Samaj and Pandit Mashay
Subham Dutta




Albert Camus' Rejoinder to the Absent God and the Absurdity of Existence in The Plague
Sacaria Joseph

III - Moving Between Language and Media




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




Forgotten Difference: The Plague in Hindi and Urdu Literature
Ishan Mehandru




The Periwig Maker and Defoe: A Deja vu Upon the Present
Sanghita Sanyal

IV - Fear, Disaster and Dystopia




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




Pandemic as a Disaster: Narratives of Suffering and "Risk" in Twilight in Delhi
Sumantra Baral




Pandemic Fear: Death and the Ruin of Civilization in Jack London's The Scarlet Plague
Paramita Dutta De




Pandemic and the End of the World in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake
Sayan Aich Bhowmik

V - COVID-19, Public health and Social justice




Power and the Pandemic Through Two Gothic Tropes
Tabish Khair




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

Yash Gupta

Index