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The Virus Touch

Theorizing Epidemic Media

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

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The Virus Touch

Theorizing Epidemic Media

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific, artistic, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological, social, and ecological catastrophes, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe, store, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities accruing from diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect.

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Duke University Press

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1478023848

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Global Icons

Apertures to the Popular

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

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Global Icons

Apertures to the Popular

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Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

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The Virus Touch

Theorizing Epidemic Media

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

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Theorizing Epidemic Media

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Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre

By: Bishnupriya Dutt

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Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre

By: Bishnupriya Dutt

Maya Rao, performer, performance maker and feminist, has not only contributed to Indian feminist theatre, but is a trailblazer, who set new standards in solo performances, mapped an alternate career trajectory for women in theatre and, in the face of right-wing state repression in India, has engaged significantly in performance activism. This Element looks back at her early career in the 1980s when she was creating agit prop theatre for the feminist movement and forward to her performance activism in the twenty-first century, with detailed attention to Rao's acclaimed protest Walk, and her participation in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The study also encompasses her parallel work in the theatre, from early collaborations with feminist directors to her solo projects. The author traces her creative-political journey towards an egalitarian feminist future.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009081454

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Global Icons

Apertures to the Popular

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

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Global Icons

Apertures to the Popular

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.

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When Borne Across

Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

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When Borne Across

Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel

By: Bishnupriya Ghosh

India's 1997 celebration of the Golden Jubilee marked fifty years of independence from British colonial rule. This anniversary is the impetus for Bishnupriya Ghosh's exploration of the English language icons of South Asian post-colonial literature: Salman Rushdie, Vikram Chandra, Amitav Ghosh, Upamanyu Chatterjee, and Arundhati Roy. These authors, grouped together as South Asian cosmopolitical writers, produce work challenging and expanding preconceived notions of Indian cultural identity, while being sold simultaneously as popular English literature within the global market. This commodification of Indian language and identity reinforces incomplete and simplified images of India and its writers, and at times counteracts the expressed agenda of the writers. In When Borne Across, Ghosh focuses on the politics of language and history, and the related processes of translation and migration within the global network. In so doing, she develops a new approach to literary studies that adapts conventional literary analysis to the pressures, constraints, and liberties of our present era of globalization.

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0813533457

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The Virus Touch

The Virus Touch

Global Icons

Global Icons

The Virus Touch

The Virus Touch

Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre

Maya Rao and Indian Feminist Theatre

Global Icons

Global Icons

When Borne Across

When Borne Across

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