{"product_id":"insurgent-cultures-world-literatures-and-violence-from-the-global-south-hardback-9781009443838","title":"Insurgent Cultures; World Literatures and Violence from the Global South (Hardback) 9781009443838","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInsurgent Cultures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWorld Literatures and Violence from the Global South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShows how World Literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the modalities of violence that pervade contemporary politics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePavan Kumar Malreddy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009443838, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The breadth of the corpus Insurgent Cultures covers is dizzying, yet Malreddy's reading is so careful and nuanced that it makes the book a rare achievement. As a novelist the book helped me better understand and articulate the space of my writing and other writers occupy. The book is also an excellent counter-archive to the imperil and state archives of vertical power and their exclusionary mechanisms. The critic is a host, and Malreddy is a quite generous host who curates and creates space for writers from the Middle East to East Asia. Insurgent Cultures is a house of wisdom worthy of many readers as guests.' Sinan Antoon, New York University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMoving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world politics, such as communalism, factionalism, peasant wars, banditry, nationalist struggles, resource wars and acts of vengeance. The comparative approach of this book enables a theoretical realignment of insurgency from the mobilization of violence for grand, mythic, and ideological causes – as seen through the eyes of the state – to the violence for small causes, namely, the splintered violence conjured under conceptual rubrics such as divine violence, intimate violence, routine violence, everyday violence, inherited violence, and subterranean violence. Analyzing novels, autobiographies, journalistic accounts from key regions, such as Nigeria, Myanmar (Burma), India, and the Middle East, Insurgent Cultures provides a new understanding of the narratives of violence in the Global South. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: towards post-terrorism?\u003cbr\u003e 1. Precarious riches: oil, insurgency, and violence in nigerian literature\u003cbr\u003e 2. Intimate violence: rebels, heroes, and insurgent sovereignties in burmese anglophone literature\u003cbr\u003e 3. Violent solidarities: narrating the maoist insurgency in India\u003cbr\u003e 4. Violent worlds: vernacular agency in middle eastern literature\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: the moral burden of the insurgent.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414013210904,"sku":"9781009443838","price":69.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009443838i.jpg?v=1784335848","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/insurgent-cultures-world-literatures-and-violence-from-the-global-south-hardback-9781009443838","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}