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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2024

Pavan Kumar Malreddy
Pavan Kumar Malreddy
Affiliation:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
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Insurgent Cultures
World Literatures and Violence from the Global South
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgments

  2. Introduction: Toward Post-Terrorism?

    1. Mythic Violence and Enchanted Solidarity

    2. Splintered Violence and Disenchanted Solidarity

    3. Unframing the Insurgent: Violence at the Limits of Literary Criticism

    4. Narrating Insurgency: World, Periphery and the Vernacular

    5. Plan of the Book

  3. 1Precarious Riches: Oil, Insurgency, and Violence in Nigerian Literature

    1. The Violent Precariat

    2. Absent Presences in Michael Peel’s A Swamp Full of Dollars

    3. Present Absences in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

    4. Subterranean Violence: Present Absences of Oil Unrest in Tony Nwaka’s Lords of the Creek

    5. Oil, Oil Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Fry: Routine Violence in Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

  4. 2Intimate Violence: Rebels, Heroes, and Insurgent Sovereignties in Burmese Anglophone Literature

    1. The Elusive Terrorist: Tropes, Figures, and the Intimacy of Violence

    2. Intimacy and Militancy in From the Land of Green Ghosts and Road to Rangoon

    3. Intimate Sovereignty? Affective In/Justice in Wendy Law-Yone’s Irrawaddy Tango

    4. From Intimate Violence to Insurgent Sovereignty: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom from Fear and Pascal Khoo Thwe’s From the Land of Green Ghosts

  5. 3Violent Solidarities: Narrating the Maoist Insurgency in India

    1. Solidarity, Sovereignty, and Divine Violence in Three Naxalite Novels

    2. (Dis)enchanted Solidarity and Useless Suffering

    3. Divine Violence and Useful Suffering

    4. Affects, Justice, and Solidarities in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades and Sudeep Chakravarti’s Red Sun: Travels in a Naxalite Country

  6. 4Violent Worlds: Vernacular Agency in Middle Eastern Literature

    1. Of the Sublime, Divine, Secular, and the Vernacular

    2. Violence and the Vernacular

    3. Ennobling the Dead: Thanatopolitics in The Corpse Washer

    4. Globe versus World: Necropolitics and Thanatopolitics in The City Always Wins

  7. Epilogue: The Moral Burden of the Insurgent

  8. Index

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