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Postcolonial disaster : narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century
- Title
- Postcolonial disaster : narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century / Pallavi Rastogi.
- Author
- Rastogi, Pallavi
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- ix, 289 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Postcolonial Disaster creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction; through a rigorous engagement with disaster studies, the book also interjects the humanities, as well as humanistic inquiry, in a well-established discipline anchored mostly to the social sciences. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and in the allied social sciences such as anthropology, geography, and political science"--
- Series Statement
- Critical insurgencies
- Uniform Title
- Critical insurgencies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-first Century -- Explosion -- Tsunami Stories: Writing Out the Wave in the Oceanic Disaster -- Slow Burn -- "Better Fed Than Free": Buying Out of the Economic Disaster -- Ripping Off the BandAIDS: Dying Out in the Medical Disaster -- Simmer -- War of the Words: Fighting Out the Geopolitical Disaster -- Coda. Catastrophes of the Now: (B)Reaching Out of the Refugee Disaster
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1294
- ISBN
- 9780810141728
- 0810141728
- 9780810141735
- 0810141736
- LCCN
- 2019022963
- OCLC
- 1112137794
- Author
- Rastogi, Pallavi, author.
- Title
- Postcolonial disaster : narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century / Pallavi Rastogi.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical insurgenciesCritical insurgencies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. COMPARES DISASTER LITERATURE IN SOUTH ASIA & SOUTHERN AFRICA.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-1294