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Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities

COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial
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The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art. COVID-19 was a type of apocalypse, a catastrophic destructive event that produced dystopian measures in its wake and drew uncanny parallels to dystopic works of literature and speculative fiction. Yet the pandemic was apocalyptic in another sense too. The word apocalypse derives from apokalupsis, which means disclosure or uncovering. In this way, COVID-19 also revealed the dystopian processes already at work in the world, including digital forms of surveillance as well as the asymmetries within populations and divides in health outcomes between the Global North and Global South. Indeed, societies that have experienced the horrors of settler colonialism have already survived apocalypses. COVID-19 serves then as a premonition for our climate emergency as well as an echo of other apocalyptic situations, both real and imagined. This book consists of essays from acclaimed theorists and scholars writing amid the pandemic and exposes the asymmetries of our divided world. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and comparative literature including post-apocalyptic and speculative fiction. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing and are accompanied by a new afterword.

Author Biography:

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bennett University, India. He is the author of Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (2022); Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014). His latest publication includes a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature on "Partition: 75 Years On", and a special issue of Metacritic Journal on "Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature" He is the Vice Chair of the international research group, Challenging Precarity (UK) Aleks Wansbrough is a Writer and Cultural Theorist. The author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen: Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age (2021), his current research concerns ideological analyses of digital media and film. He is an editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture published by Penn State University Press.
Release date NZ
August 30th, 2024
Contributors
  • Edited by Aleks Wansbrough
  • Edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi
Pages
123
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
ISBN-13
9781032728131
Product ID
38739879

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