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Post-Millennial Perceptions and Post-Pandemic Realities

Living Dystopian

Edited By: Pradipta Mukherjee

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Even in dystopia, mundane life becomes life-giving. This book attests to human resilience, where the darkest images yield the sweetness of hope. A frontier document on Covid-19, its stellar contributors explore art, medicine, economics, and history with tenacity and awe.

Life goes on, even in a dystopia. In Covid-19 times and in other historical and fictional dystopian situations when the world is on the threshold…

Life goes on, even in a dystopia. In Covid-19 times and in other historical and fictional dystopian situations when the world is on the threshold of going haywire, mundane minutiae, so undermined and mocked in “normal” times, assume a life-giving status. This book is fed by that moody, sceptical life-force and itself attests to how the soundscape of dystopian reality is also replete with the sibilance of human resilience. The darkest images—nightmare-driven, despair-riven—yield the sweetness of hope partly through the sincere analysis and commitment of the contributors and partly through the abundance of light in their articulation of anger, suffering, and the joys of memory. A frontier document in the face of the unprecedented world-wide contagion of Covid-19, with stellar contributors from three continents, this book looks at literary communities, art, medicine, demography, economics, and history with tenacity, concern, and awe.

Pradipta Mukherjee is a film critic and Associate Professor at the Department of English, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta. Her published books include The Fluid Frame in Cinema (2021), Tragic Survivals (2017), Shakespeare on the Celluloid (2014), and Studies in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (2010). She has published five co-edited books and anthologies, 21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English (2023), New NAAC Guidelines (2022), Dodging Dystopia: Global Routes, Literary Circuits (2022), Women’s Education in India (2016), and The Diasporic Dilemma (2014). Mukherjee has presented her research at some of the most prestigious academic forums across the world as an invited speaker, including the IASPR Conference at Brussels (Belgium), as well as the University of Paris 13, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Grenoble Alpes, the University of London, the University of Leeds, and Queen’s University Belfast.

Pradipta Mukherjee, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Angshuman Kar, Arti Nirmal, Avirup Ghosh, Bashabi Fraser, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Cecile Oumhani, Cornelius Crowley, Debasish Lahiri, Douglas Lanier, Gerri Kimber, Hem Raj Bansal, John McCourt, Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury, Neal Hall, Nishi Pulugurtha, Rumpa Das