Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India
Author:   Stacey Balkan
Publisher:   West Virginia University Press
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Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 January 2022
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Author:   Stacey Balkan
Publisher:   West Virginia University Press
Imprint:   West Virginia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781952271366


ISBN 10:   1952271363
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Why Can't a Rogue Be a Hero? 1. Revisiting the Environmental Picaresque: Plantationocene Aesthetics and the Origins of Cheap Nature in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy 2. A Memento Mori Tale: Indra Sinha's Animal's People and the Politics of Global Toxicity 3. Slum Ecologies: Figuring (Energy) Waste in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger Conclusion: Beyond Extraction: Imagining Solarity in India's Mineral Belt Notes Bibliography Index

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"""Rogues in the Postcolony is a marvelous study of how picaresque novels refract the violent dispossessions and rogue freedoms of extractive capitalism in India and beyond. In dialogue with cutting-edge conversations in environmental and energy humanities, Balkan argues convincingly that extraction is a pervasive dynamic within post/colonial modernity."" Dominic Boyer, author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene"


Rogues in the Postcolony is a marvelous study of how picaresque novels refract the violent dispossessions and rogue freedoms of extractive capitalism in India and beyond. In dialogue with cutting-edge conversations in environmental and energy humanities, Balkan argues convincingly that extraction is a pervasive dynamic within post/colonial modernity. Dominic Boyer, author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene


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Stacey Balkan is assistant professor of English and environmental humanities at Florida Atlantic University. She is coeditor of Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere.

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