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Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.
List of contents
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 Déjà 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 GuptaIndex
About the author
Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India.
Summary
Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of death in literature about epidemics both from India and around the world.
