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Domestic servitude is a widespread phenomenon in countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, where even lower-middle class homes rely on domestic workers (mostly women and children). While social scientists have begun to study this unregulated and exploitative 'informal sector,' literary critics have not paid attention to servants in South Asian literatures or examined their political or literary significance. 'Postcolonial Servitude' argues that a new generation of writers has begun to rethink this culture of servitude and to devise new forms of writing designed to prompt change in normalized ways of seeing and being.

Household employees in literature. --- South Asian fiction (English) --- Themes, motives.

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Employs a unique three-part structure covering South Asia, South East Asia, and "cross-border" fictions and is the first work of its kind to provide a single comparative assessment of the novel across South and South East Asia, and in migrant lines of travel in and beyond these regions. Both an introduction and a scholarly resource, it covers internationally recognized novelists but also showcases forgotten under-represented writers and their works. The volume provides comprehensive survey chapters on individual national traditions, comprising the anglophone novel of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mainland China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Myanmar. Its historical and geographical reach takes in late colonial fictions, war novels of Korea and Vietnam, and autobiographical fictions of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; its formal scope spans multi-volume historical epics, political fictions, and graphic novels. The development of the South and South East Asian novel in English is further contextualized in chapters on publishing and book history, and new forms of genre fiction.

English fiction --- South Asian fiction (English) --- Southeast Asian fiction (English) --- History and criticism

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"Postcolonial Disaster creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction; through a rigorous engagement with disaster studies, the book also interjects the humanities, as well as humanistic inquiry, in a well-established discipline anchored mostly to the social sciences. The book will be of interest to scholars, teachers, graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities and in the allied social sciences such as anthropology, geography, and political science"--

African fiction (English) --- African fiction (English). --- Disasters in literature. --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- South Asian fiction (English) --- South Asian fiction (English). --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- 2000-2099.

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This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key ‘transformative’ aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new middle-class narratives and popular genres; and literary response to terror and conflict. Edited and designed with researchers and students in mind, the book updates existing criticism and represents a readable guide to a dynamic, rapidly changing area of global literature.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- Oriental literature. --- Asian Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- South Asian fiction (English) --- History and criticism. --- South Asian literature (English) --- Literature   . --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Authors --- Authorship --- Asian literature --- Philosophy --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.