Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination

This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.

Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor of English literature at Midnapore College in West Bengal, India.

Swayamdipta Das is lecturer in the Department of English at Narasinha Dutt College in West Bengal, India.