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Contagion Narratives
- The Society, Culture and Ecology of the Global South
Engelsk
Bogcover for Contagion Narratives af , 9781032258690
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9781032258690
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032258691
Udg. Dato:
26 aug 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,1 x 22,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
26 aug 2024
Paperback 2024
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This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha Chatterjee’s books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of the world. Featuring many scholars (of the humanities and social sciences) in the Global South, these chapters take as their intellectual focus the political-social as well as the ethical challenges posed by the contagions in the "East." Through analyses of literary narratives/films/video games, this Contagion Narratives traces the manufactured narratives of victimization by majority-communities and the lethal divides consequently being drawn between a reconstituted "authentic majority" and the more vulnerable minority ‘other’ in these societies. The essays in this collection are animated by imaginations of liveable alternatives on a planet on the brink. This volume traces lineages to Buchi Emecheta and Rabindranath Tagore rather than Albert Camus, to Satyajit Ray and the indie traditions rather than Hollywood, and to Buddhism rather than Christianity, to track the historic journeys of "modernity." Using an eclectic set of analytical tools and strategies of textual criticism, this volume argues that ideas of "democracy," even while they carry echoes of other societies, are markedly different as they travel from Gaddafi’s Libya to Wuhan under lockdown to colonial Bengal.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
180
ISBN-13:
9781032258690
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032258691
Udg. Dato:
26 aug 2024
Størrelse i cm:
15,1 x 22,9 x 1,3
Oplagsdato:
26 aug 2024
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