Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19, the (Post)Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial

The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation to other crises (economic, social, digital, and ecological) and by drawing parallels to literature, cinema, and visual art.

Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Bennett University, India. He is the author of Representations of Precarity in South Asian Literature in English (2022); Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014). His latest publication includes a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature on ＂Partition: 75 Years On＂, and a special issue of Metacritic Journal on ＂Hope and Utopia in Global South Literature＂ He is the Vice Chair of the international research group, Challenging Precarity (UK)

Aleks Wansbrough is a Writer and Cultural Theorist. The author of Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen: Myths and Allegories in the Digital Age (2021), his current research concerns ideological analyses of digital media and film. He is an editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture published by Penn State University Press.