Vol. 61 No. 1 (2024): Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia

EDITORIAL Should I care about everyone else?

Susan Philip

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EDITORIAL: Should I care about everyone else?

GUEST EDITORIAL: Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia

Om Prakash Dwivedi, Isha Malhotra

1-4

Guest Editorial“Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia”

Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity

Debajyoti Biswas, Jayashree Haloi

5-27

Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity

Symbiogenesis, Biocapitalism, and Subversion in Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore

Binayak Roy

28-48

Symbiogenesis, Biocapitalism, and Subversion in Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore

Aging, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives

Debashrita Dey, Priyanka Tripathi

49-79

Aging, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives

Precarious Oceans and Vulnerability: Micropolitics of Care in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

Abhisek Ghosal

80-102

Precarious Oceans and Vulnerability: Micropolitics of Care in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women Emerging as Caregivers: A Visual Analysis of the Refugee Webcomic I Am a Leader of My House

Rishav Bali, Isha Malhotra

103-132

Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women Emerging as Caregivers: A Visual Analysis of the Refugee Webcomic I Am a Leader of My House

Foodocracy and the Politics of Radical Care in The Black Soil

Om Prakash Dwivedi

133-151

Foodocracy and the Politics of Radical Care in The Black Soil

Beefing up Resistance Onscreen: Cow Politics and Non-vegetarian Carnivals in Post- 2015 Malayalam Films

Chithira James, Reju George Mathew

152-175

Beefing up Resistance Onscreen: Cow Politics and Non-vegetarian Carnivals in Post- 2015 Malayalam Films

Psychogeographical Remapping of Hong Kong between Being and Non-being in Liu Yichang’s Intersection

Jianbo Su, Pillai Shanthini

176-200

Psychogeographical Remapping of Hong Kong between Being and Non-being in Liu Yichang’s Intersection

The Prisoner of the Precarious Body: An Odyssey of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati

Anshul Dhankar, Devendra Kumar Sharma

201-226

The Prisoner of the Precarious Body: An Odyssey of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati

‘I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it’: Conversation with Kalyani Thakur Charal

DEBDATTA CHAKRABORTY, SARBANI BANERJEE

227-238

“I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it”: In Conversation with Kalyani Thakur Charal

Speaking and Writing the Anthropocene : In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra

Zainor Izat Zainal, Mr. Muhammad Syaukat, Noritah Omar

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Speaking and Writing the Anthropocene: In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra

Weathering

Christian Jil Repalda Benitez

252-253

Weathering

3 Poems - Estuary of Mud, Petaling Street (茨厂街), 168 Noodles, Pudu

Chwan Shiuh Tan

254-256

Estuary of Mud

Bandar Sri Permaisuri

Soon Vin Lim

257-258

Bandar Sri Permaisuri

K. Vaishali K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. ISBN 978-93-92099-51-9.

Dwitiya Sarkar, Dhiman Roy

259-264

K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. ISBN 978-93-92099-51-9.

Yaqin, Amina. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. ISBN 9781785277566 (Anthem Press, 2022), 280 pages

Nukhbah Taj Langah

265-268

Yaqin, Amina. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. ISBN 9781785277566 (Anthem Press, 2022), 280 pages

Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Eds). Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 398 pp. ISBN 978-981-15-2630-5.

Aneesh Barai

269-272

Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Eds). Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories

Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2024. 272 pp. ISBN 978-981-18-6035-5.

Tejash Kumar Singh

273-277

Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2024. 272 pp. ISBN 978-981-18-6035-5.

Notes on Contributors
Notes on Contributors

Susan Philip

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Notes on Contributors

Full Issue

Editorial

EDITORIAL Should I care about everyone else?

GUEST EDITORIAL: Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia

Articles

Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity

Symbiogenesis, Biocapitalism, and Subversion in Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore

Aging, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives

Precarious Oceans and Vulnerability: Micropolitics of Care in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women Emerging as Caregivers: A Visual Analysis of the Refugee Webcomic I Am a Leader of My House

Foodocracy and the Politics of Radical Care in The Black Soil

GENERAL SECTION

Beefing up Resistance Onscreen: Cow Politics and Non-vegetarian Carnivals in Post- 2015 Malayalam Films

Psychogeographical Remapping of Hong Kong between Being and Non-being in Liu Yichang’s Intersection

The Prisoner of the Precarious Body: An Odyssey of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati

Interview

‘I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it’: Conversation with Kalyani Thakur Charal

Speaking and Writing the Anthropocene : In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra

Fiction & Poetry

Weathering

3 Poems - Estuary of Mud, Petaling Street (茨厂街), 168 Noodles, Pudu

Bandar Sri Permaisuri

Book Reviews

K. Vaishali K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. ISBN 978-93-92099-51-9.

Yaqin, Amina. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. ISBN 9781785277566 (Anthem Press, 2022), 280 pages

Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Eds). Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 398 pp. ISBN 978-981-15-2630-5.

Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2024. 272 pp. ISBN 978-981-18-6035-5.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Notes on Contributors