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04276aam a2200493 i 4500 001 F18A43061DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 190614t20202020ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019022963 020 $a 0810141736 020 $a 9780810141735 020 $a 0810141728 020 $a 9780810141728 035 $a (OCoLC)1112137794 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d GYG $d CUV $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR830.D56 $b R37 2020 082 00 $a 820.9/3582 $2 23 100 1 $a Rastogi, Pallavi, $e author. 245 10 $a Postcolonial disaster : $b narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century / $c Pallavi Rastogi. 264 1 $a Evanston, Illinois : $b Northwestern University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a ix, 289 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Critical insurgencies 520 $a "'Postcolonial Disaster' creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction ; through a rigorous engagement with disaster studies, the book also interjects the humanities, as well as humanistic inquiry, in a well-established discipline anchored mostly to the social sciences. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and in the allied social sciences such as anthropology, geography, and political science."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "'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 India and Pakistan. Pallavi Rastogi argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. She writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension. In recent disasters, Story and Event are tied together as the urgency to circulate information and rebuild in the aftermath of the disaster dictates the flow of the narrative. As the Story acquires temporal distance from the Event, such as the seventy-three years since the partition of India in 1947, it plays more with form and theme, to expand beyond a tale about an all-consuming tragedy. Story and Event are in a constant dance with each other, and the Disaster Unconscious plays the tune to which they move. Rastogi creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction and brings concepts from Disaster Studies into the realm of literary analysis."--taken from back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261 - 279) and index. 505 00 $g Index. $t Catastrophes of the now: (B)reaching out of the refugee disaster -- $g Part 1. $t Explosion -- $g Chapter 1. $t Tsunami stories : Writing out the wave in the oceanic disaster -- $g Part 2. $t Slow Burn -- $g Chapter 2. $t "Better fed than free" : Buying out of the economic disaster -- $g Chapter 3. $t Ripping off the BandAIDS : Dying out in the medical disaster -- $g Part 3. $t Simmer -- $g Chapter 4. $t War of the words : Fighting out the geopolitical disaster -- $g Coda. $t Catastrophes of the now: (B)reaching out of the refugee disaster -- $g Notes -- $g Bibliography -- $g Index. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Disasters in literature. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a South Asian fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 7 $a African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799780 650 7 $a Disasters in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894811 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a South Asian fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01762737 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Critical insurgencies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F18A43061DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search