Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters
Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century (2020): Review Essay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21728957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sourit Bhattacharya (0000-0002-7485-1233, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1481-4374 • E-ISSN: 1481-4374 |
| Publisher | Purdue University (bepress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7771/1481-4374.4298 |
| OpenAlex | W4292319844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This review essay reads literary-critical works of what is broadly understood as ‘postcolonial disasters’. It outlines how literary critics in the last decades have drawn upon cultural-geographical and anthropological readings of disasters to develop critical frameworks around how literary writers have used style, form, and aesthetics to represent postcolonial catastrophes. It then offers a detailed review of Pallavi Rastogi’s 2020 monograph, Postcolonial Disasters: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century. Through an engaged and critical reading, the essay attends to Rastogi’s insightful theorizing of the topic of ‘Disaster Unconscious’ and her wide-ranging interrogation of fiction from South Asia and Southern Africa. Her committed exploration of the dialectic of story and event, the review offers, is a fine example of materialist literary criticism indicating the ethical and aesthetic urgency for close and comparative readings of postcolonial literatures of disaster
Aesthetics · Art · Critical thought · Criticism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literature · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Global Security and Public Health · History · Philosophy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |