Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature explores the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia.
The book sheds light on the relationships between colonial legacies, social structures, and violence in the South Asian region. In the context of South Asia, a region marked by rich cultural diversity and historical complexities, the intersections of postcolonialism, violence, and literature become particularly salient. Through critical engagements with Dalit, feminist, and environmental literatures, this collection illuminates how corporeal, psychic, and spatial violence are normalized by hegemonic narratives and inscribed onto subaltern bodies and landscapes.
Edited by:
Zakir Hussain,
Ghulam Rabani,
Rajbir Samal
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 232mm,
Width: 154mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781666973167
ISBN 10: 1666973165
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 19 February 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
About the Editors 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) Index
Zakir Hussain is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Ladakh, India. Ghulam Rabani is Senior Doctoral Fellow of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Rajbir Samal is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
