Postcolonial Disaster : Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century /

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"'Postcolonial Disaster' studies literary fiction about crises of epic proportions in contemporary South Asia and Southern Africa : the oceanic disaster in Sri Lanka, the economic disaster in Zimbabwe, the medical disaster in South Africa and Botswana, and the geopolitical disaster in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rastogi, Pallavi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Postkolonialismus > Motiv
Literatur
Katastrophe > Motiv
Englisch
South Asian fiction (English)
Postcolonialism in literature.
English fiction.
Disasters in literature.
African fiction (English)
Postcolonialisme dans la litterature.
Roman africain (anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Catastrophes dans la litterature.
South Asian fiction (English) > History and criticism.
African fiction (English) > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Südasien
Afrika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Postcolonial disaster : Narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century
  • Part 1. Explosion
  • Chapter 1. Tsunami stories : Writing out the wave in the oceanic disaster
  • Part 2. Slow Burn
  • Chapter 2. "Better fed than free" : Buying out of the economic disaster
  • Chapter 3. Ripping off the BandAIDS : Dying out in the medical disaster
  • Part 3. Simmer
  • Chapter 4. War of the words : Fighting out the geopolitical disaster
  • Coda. Catastrophes of the now: (B)reaching out of the refugee disaster
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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