Vulnerable South Asia - 9780367506667

Taylor & Francis

Vulnerable South AsiaPrecarities, Resistance, and Care Communities\nAuthor(s): Pallavi Rastogi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367506667, 978-0367506667\nSynopsis\nThis innovatively organized volume brings together reflections on crisis and community in South Asia by some of the most important authors and scholars writing about the Indian subcontinent today. \n\nThe various pieces, including the foreword, the poetic interludes, the nine different essays on a range of topics, as well as the afterword, all seek to understand the precarious state of our planet and its population, and the ways to resist through both writing and teaching the forces that render us vulnerable; to create \""care communities\"" in which we look out for, and after, each other on egalitarian rather than authoritarian terms. Turning to literary and cultural criticism in precarious times reveals the immense value of the humanities, including.