Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination 1666951471, 9781666951479

Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination 1666951471, 9781666951479

Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the

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Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy 9781474439053

Navigates various literary and philosophical approaches to the representation of the nonhuman 5 chapters each explore a

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America’s Disaster Culture: The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture 9781628924619, 9781501396212, 9781628924633

Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic

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South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation 9781529205152, 9781529205176, 9781529205169

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and

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South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation 9781529205169

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and

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Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing (New Comparisons in World Literature) 3031387031, 9783031387036

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can repre

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On the Power and Limits of Empathy 3031375211, 9783031375217

This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This esse

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Frontiers of South Asian Culture 1032231696, 9781032231693

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with

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Writing and the Experience of Limits

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The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia 1009340751, 9781009340755

Based on over a decade of original archival research, this book shows how Urdu travel writing gave voice to a global ima

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