Rogues in the Postcolony

Rogues in the Postcolony

Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India

Balkan, Stacey

West Virginia University Press

01/2022

222

Mole

Inglês

9781952271366

15 a 20 dias

333

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Why Can't a Rogue Be a Hero?
1. Revisiting the Environmental Picaresque: Plantationocene Aesthetics and the Origins of Cheap Nature in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy
2. A Memento Mori Tale: Indra Sinha's Animal's People and the Politics of Global Toxicity
3. Slum Ecologies: Figuring (Energy) Waste in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger
Conclusion: Beyond Extraction: Imagining Solarity in India's Mineral Belt
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anglophone; Indian; picaresque; capitalism; colonial