Speaking Havoc by Ramu Nagappan HARDBACK 9780295996158

University of Washington Press

Speaking HavocSocial Suffering and South Asian Narratives\nAuthor(s): Ramu Nagappan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295996158, 978-0295996158\nSynopsis\nWho has the right to speak about trauma? As cultural products, narratives of social suffering paradoxically release us from responsibility while demanding that we examine our own connectedness to the circumstances that produce suffering. As a result, the text's act of \""speaking havoc\"" rebounds in unsettling ways.\n\nSpeaking Havoc investigates how literary and cinematic fictions intervene in the politics and reception of social suffering. Amitav Ghosh's modernist novel The Shadow Lines [tel], A Fine Balance [tel] by Rohinton Mistry, the short stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Salman Rushdie's postmodernist novel Shame [tel], and the \""spectacular\"" films of Maniratnam: each bears witness to social violence in South Asia. These works conf.