Editorial

Guest Editor’s Column: Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia

Poetic Interlude I: After the Deluge

Foreword

1. Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth

2. Post-Magic: The Female Naxalite at 50 in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom

3. The Ethics of Representation and the Figure of the Woman: The Question of Agency in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s "Can the Subaltern Speak?"

4. The Literary Lumpen: The Naksha Narratives of Binoy Ghosh

5. "No One in the House Knew Her Name": Servant Problems in R. K. Narayan’s Short Stories

Poetic Interlude II: Spaces

6. Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature

7. Representing the "Other": Minority Discourse in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel

8. Teaching Precarity, Resistance, and Community: Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble and Genocide Pedagogy

9. Teaching Beyond Empathy: The Classroom As Care Community

Poetic Interlude III: Birds Come After Me

Afterword: Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Climate, Terror, and Planetarity

Pallavi Rastogi is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA. She has written two books: Postcolonial Disaster and Afrindian Fictions and is also the co-editor of the volume, Before Windrush. She has authored various articles on South Asian and Southern African literature.