Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture : The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.

• | Author: Sk Sagir Ali, Swayamdipta Das
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1666951471
• | ISBN-13: 9781666951479