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Author:   Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781032210919

ISBN 10:   1032210915
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   23 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"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 Gupta Index"

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Nishi Pulugurtha is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India.

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