About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature
Zakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani, and Rajbir Samal
Part 1: Violence, Caste, and Gender
1. Dialectics of Vulnerability and Resistance: The Politics of Dalit Identity in C. Ayyappan's Writings
Christina Romeo (Christ Academy Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru)
2. Charred Bodies, Charred Narratives: Violence, Memory, and Truth in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
Saundarya (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
3. Through Traumatic (Mate)Realism and Strategic Essentialism: A Critical Study of Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess
Dhanya V Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)
4. Locating the Articulations of Gendered Violence in A Leaf in the Storm
Aiswarya Sanath (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Part 2: Postcolonial Fractures and Ethnic Violence
5. Home and the Nation: Representing Marginalities in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel
Saman Ashfaq (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Bhopal)
6. Anthologizing India's Northeast: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Violence in the Region
Niborna Hazarika (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi)
7. Violence, Vulnerability, and Ethics in The Story of a Brief Marriage: Bearing Witness to Marginalized Suffering
Navneet Kumar (Mount Royal University)
8. Quiet Devastations: Sri Lankan Ethnic Violence and Broken Intimacies in Selvadurai and Arudpragasam
Madhurima Nayak (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
Part 3: Place, People, and Environmental Violence
9. Post-Millennial Indian Fiction and The Discourse of Toxicity
Rahul Vijayan and Nagendra Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
10. Intersecting Injustices: Green Criminology and Postcolonial Marginalities in Indra Sinha's Animal's People
Ranjit Mandal (Rural Institute of Higher Studies in Bhograi) and Debjani Banerjee (Beheragora Polytechnic)
11. Bastuhara: Historiographical Recovery of the Ecological Subaltern in The Hungry Tide
Gunja Nandi (Texas Christian University)
12. Violence at the Wake of Capitalist Modernity: A Literary Study of People Vis-à-vis the Rivers of Bengal
Indra Sankar Ghatak and Bhagyasree Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi)
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