Epidemic Narratives The Cultural Construction of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in India
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| Author: | Dilip K Das |
| ISBN 13: | 9789354427787 |
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Pages: | 400pp., |
| Published On: | 15th January 2025 |
| Subject: | Anthropology and Sociology/Social problems Social welfare |
About the Book
CONTENTS: Acknowledgements,
Introduction,
1. What Is an Epidemic?,
2. Pandemic Nation,
3. Militant Nationalism and Narratives of the Poona Plague Outbreak,
4. Plague as Ethical Crisis in U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara,
5. Narratives of the Spanish Flu Pandemic,
6. Infectious Hepatitis: Religion, Rationality and Politics in Satyajit Ray’s Ganashatru,
7. AIDS Narratives,
8. Fictionalising History: Ashique Abu’s Virus,
9. COVID Narratives: Pandemic Precarity,
10. Why Narratives?,
Epilogue by S. Mukundan: ‘Agni Plague, Buffalo Plague and Mad Plague’: The Cultural Representation of an Epidemic in Plague Sindhu.