Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature

Zakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani, Rajbir Samal

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216266082
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature explores the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.

The book sheds light on the relationships between colonial legacies, social structures, and violence in the South Asian region. In the context of South Asia, a region marked by rich cultural diversity and historical complexities, the intersections of postcolonialism, violence, and literature become particularly salient. Through critical engagements with Dalit, feminist, and environmental literatures, this collection illuminates how corporeal, psychic, and spatial violence are normalized by hegemonic narratives and inscribed onto subaltern bodies and landscapes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature
• Part I: Violence, Caste, and Gender
• Chapter 1: Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resistance: The Politics of Dalit Identity in C. Ayyappan’s Writings
• Chapter 2: Charred Bodies, Charred Narratives: Violence, Memory, and Truth in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess
• Chapter 3: Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess
• Chapter 4: Locating the Articulations of Gendered Violence in “A Leaf in the Storm”
• Part II: Postcolonial Fractures and Ethnic Violence
• Chapter 5: Home and the Nation: Representing Marginalities in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel
• Chapter 6: Anthologizing India’s Northeast: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Violence in the Region
• Chapter 7: Violence, Vulnerability, and Ethics in The Story of a Brief Marriage: Bearing Witness to Marginalized Suffering
• Chapter 8: Quiet Devastations: Sri Lankan Ethnic Violence and Broken Intimacies in Selvadurai and Arudpragasam
• Part III: Place, People, and Environmental Violence
• Chapter 9: Toxic Realities: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction and the Discourse of Environmental Toxicity
• Chapter 10: Intersecting Injustices: Green Criminology and Postcolonial Marginalities in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People
• Chapter 11: Bastuhara: Historiographical Recovery of the Ecological Subaltern in The Hungry Tide
• Chapter 12: Violence at the Wake of Capitalist Modernity: A Literary Study of People Vis-à-Vis the Rivers of Bengal
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors