Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English

Foreword: Precarity and the Human-Nonhuman Interface - Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, Editor, PMLA).- 1. Introduction - Om Prakash Dwivedi (Bennett University, India).- Part I   Infrastructure.- 2. Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis - Lisa Lau (University of Keele, UK) and Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal).- 3. Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization, and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English - Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University, UK).- 4. The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure in Urban India - Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK).- 5. Rural-to-urban Migration and Precarity in The Story of My Assassins, Q & A, and The White Tiger - Robbie BH Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore).- 6. The Precarity of the Urban Spirit: Abha Dawesar's Babyji, Diksha Basu's The Windfall, and Vivek Shanbhag's Ghachar Ghochar - John C Hawley (Santa Clara University, US).- Part II   Body.- 7. Purity, Precarity and Power: Prayaag Akbar's Leila -  Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India).- 8. Drag, and Other Forms of Self-Making in Precarious Times : Yashica Dutt's Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir and Bagul, Baburao's When I Hid My Cast - Toral Jatin Gajarwala (New York University, US).- 9. "[S]titched Together by Threads of Light": Perturbatory Narration, Queer Necropolitics and Biopower, and Transversality in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Roehampton, UK).- 10. The Precarity and Predatory Behaviour of the 'Mediahideen' in Fatima Bhutto's Isis Novel The Runaways - Clare Chambers (University of York, UK).- 11. Imagining the

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at Bennett University, India. He is the co-author of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). His latest publications include a special issue on "Fractured Identities in Postcolonial and Postapocalyptic Settings: Framing the post-Corona World" (Journal of Postcolonial Writing).