Vulnerable South Asia

Pallavi Rastogi is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA. She has written two books: Postcolonial Disaster and Afrindian Fictions and is also the co-editor of the volume, Before Windrush. She has authored various articles on South Asian and Southern African literature.

• EditorialPradyumna S. ChauhanGuest Editor’s Column: Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South AsiaPallavi RastogiPoetic Interlude I: After the DelugeK. SatchidanandanForewordHomi K. BhabhaSection I - Bodies That Do Not Matter: Gender and Sexual Precarity1. Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and EarthRahul K. Gairola2. Post-Magic: The Female Naxalite at 50 in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Neel Mukherjee’s A State of FreedomMeghan Gorman-DaRif3. The Ethics of Representation and the Figure of the Woman: The Question of Agency in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s "Can the Subaltern Speak?"Anirban Bhattacharjee Section II - In A Class of Their Own: Belaboring Precarity4. The Literary Lumpen: The Naksha Narratives of Binoy GhoshAuritro Majumdar 5. "No One in the House Knew Her Name": Servant Problems in R. K. Narayan’s Short StoriesAmbreen Hai Poetic Interlude II: SpacesK. SatchidanandanSection III - Region and Religion: Eco-Migrant and Minority Precarity6. Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic LiteratureTana Trivedi 7. Representing the "Other": Minority Discourse in the Postcolonial Indian English NovelSaman Ashfaq Section IV - Teaching Troubles: The Pedagogy of Precarity8. Teaching Precarity, Resistance, and Community: Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble and Genocide PedagogyColleen Lutz Clemens9. Teaching Beyond Empathy: The Classroom As Care CommunityMatthew Dischinger Poetic Interlude III: Birds Come After MeK. SatchidanandanAfterword: Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Climate, Terror, and PlanetarityGaurav Desai