Postcolonial Disaster: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century

by Pallavi Rastogi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141728
• ISBN13: 9780810141728
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"