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Argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. Pallavi Rastogi writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension.

Postcolonial Disaster Narrating Catastrophe in the TwentyFirst Century Critical Insurgencies

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810141735, 978-0810141735
      ISBN10: 0810141736

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      Book Synopsis
      Argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. Pallavi Rastogi writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension.

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