{"product_id":"rogues-in-the-postcolony-narrating-extraction-and-itinerancy-in-india-9781952271366","title":"Rogues in the Postcolony: Narrating Extraction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn environmental humanist's study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of Anglophone Indian picaresque novels that dramatize the impacts of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation on local communities in several Indian states. In this materialist history of development on the subcontinent, Stacey Balkan considers works by Amitav Ghosh, Indra Sinha, and Aravind Adiga that critique violent campaigns of enclosure and dispossession at the hands of corporate entities like the English East India Company and its many legatees. By foregrounding the intersections among landscape ideology, agricultural improvement, extractive capitalism, and aesthetic expression, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e also attends to the complicity of popular aesthetic forms with political and economic policy, as well as the colonial and extractivist logics that often frame discussions around the so-called Anthropocene epoch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together questions about settler-colonial practices and environmental injustice, \u003ci\u003eRogues in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with an investigation of new extractivist frontiers, including solar capitalism, and considers the possibility of imagining life after extraction on the Indian subcontinent and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Why Can't a Rogue Be a Hero?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Revisiting the Environmental Picaresque: Plantationocene Aesthetics and the Origins of Cheap Nature in Amitav Ghosh's \u003ci\u003eIbis Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. A Memento Mori Tale: Indra Sinha's \u003ci\u003eAnimal's People\u003c\/i\u003e and the Politics of Global Toxicity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Slum Ecologies: Figuring (Energy) Waste in Aravind Adiga's \u003ci\u003eThe White Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Beyond Extraction: Imagining Solarity in India's Mineral Belt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138442592599,"sku":"9781952271366","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781952271366.jpg?v=1751919420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rogues-in-the-postcolony-narrating-extraction-and-itinerancy-in-india-9781952271366","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}