Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India's Books

Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science and catastrophe to shape the meaning of historic events. Examining multiple discourses and textual materials, including fiction, poetry, biographies, comics, paintings, documentary and photography, this volume will illuminate the cultural, ecological and social impact of nuclearization narratives. Furthermore, this text explores themes such as the cultures of atomic scientists, the making of the bomb, nuclear bombings and disasters, nuclear aesthetics and art, and the global mobilization against nuclearization. Nuclear Cultures breaks new ground in the debates on "the nuclear" to foster the development of nuclear humanities, its vocabulary and methodology.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000804623

ISBN 13

9781000804621

Reading Culture

Theory, Praxis, Politics

By: Pramod K Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reading Culture

Theory, Praxis, Politics

By: Pramod K Nayar

The theory, methods and politics of cultural studies are examined in this book which is concerned with the ways in which public culture reflects the relations between identities, race, gender and class. Adapting a range of theories and approaches, the author demonstrates how a cultural form effectively disseminates meanings - a political act - by marginalizing certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledges while valuing others. The book covers topics as diverse as comic book superheroes, patriotic songs in Hindi films, the projection of ′authenticity′ in tourist brochures and the poetics of display in museums.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

SAGE

Published Date

ISBN 10

076193474X

ISBN 13

9780761934745

The Raj

A Journey through Ten Documents

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Raj

A Journey through Ten Documents

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This is a cultural history of the British Empire in India presented through ten key non-literary texts. Each of these texts embodies a particular attitude, ideology and/or development in imperial thinking, administrative process or cultural practices, and it is this attitude, ideology and development that the book unpacks through a reading of the texts, along with excerpts from the original documents. The aim is to flag and signpost momentous events and ideas through imperial texts such as J.Z. Holwell's 1756 account of the Black Hole of Calcutta, T.B. Macaulay's 1835 'Minute' on Indian education and Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner's 1888 advice book on colonial domesticity, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook. Through this book, it is hoped, the reader will get a flavour and glimpse of the complex and complicated structure that was the Raj. The book will appeal not only to the academic audience and literary scholars keen on the rhetoric of empire but also to the general, informed readers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

415

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9354355633

ISBN 13

9789354355639

Essays in Celebrity Culture

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Essays in Celebrity Culture

By: Pramod K. Nayar

The collection of essays in the book moves from the largest domain of celebrity culture in India – Bollywood – through celebrity life writing and biopics and, finally, to the politics of and by celebrity culture. The book begins with an exploration of films made around celebrity victims to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of Bollywood stars’ philanthropic and humanitarian work and, finally, to celebrity charisma and its role in the current era of ‘post-truth.’ Two studies of celebrity biopics and auto/biographies – from sports stars to Bollywood stars – and their disease memoirs are included. Finally, a section of essays are devoted to celebrity cultural politics, including Indian writing as a celebrity, the Narmada River as a celebrity, the desacralization of celebrity statues, Arundhati Roy’s celebrated and celebrity activism and the self-fashioning of Indian authors in the age of digital culture.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

Anthem Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

178527788X

ISBN 13

9781785277887

The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

States of Vulnerability

By: Pramod K. Nayar

This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened sensations of pain and pleasure. Extreme cultures in this book signal the social ontology of humans where, in specific conditions, vulnerability becomes helplessness. We see in these cultures the exploitation of the body’s immanent vulnerability in involuntary conditions of torture or deprivation, the encounter with extreme situations where the body is rendered incapacitated from performing routine functions due to structural conditions or in a voluntary embracing of risk in sporting events wherein the body pits itself against enormous forces and conditions. The Extreme in Contemporary Culture studies vulnerability across various conditions: torture, disease, accident. It studies spaces of vulnerability and helplessness, the aesthetics and representations of vulnerability, the extreme in the everyday and, finally, the witnessing of (in)human extremes. Extreme cultures suggest shared precarity as a foundational condition of humanity. A witness culture emerges through the cultural discourse of vulnerability, the representations of the victim and/or survivor, and the accounts of witnesses. They offer, in short, an entire new way of speaking about and classifying the human.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783483679

ISBN 13

9781783483679

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By: Pramod K. Nayar

The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts--from fiction to protest effigies and posters - and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

159

Publisher

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498540457

ISBN 13

9781498540452

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

A Green Critique

By: Krishanu Maiti,Soumyadeep Chakraborty

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

A Green Critique

By: Krishanu Maiti,Soumyadeep Chakraborty

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique focuses on the interface of the Anthropocene, sustainability, ecological aesthetics, multispecies relationality, and the environment as reflected in literature and culture. This book examines how writers have addressed ecological crises and environmental challenges that transcend national, cultural, political, social, and linguistic borders. It demonstrates how, as the environmental humanities developed and emerged as a critical discipline, it generated a diverse range of interdisciplinary fields of study such as ecographics, ecodesign, ecocinema, ecotheology, ecofeminism, ethnobotany, ecolinguistics, and bioregionalism, and formed valuable, interdisciplinary networks of critique and advocacy—and its contemporary expansion is exceptionally salient to social, political, and public issues today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498598234

ISBN 13

9781498598231

Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nuclear Cultures

Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

By: Pramod K. Nayar

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

195

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000804623

ISBN 13

9781000804621

Book's by Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India

Nuclear Cultures

Nuclear Cultures

Reading Culture

Reading Culture

The Raj

The Raj

Essays in Celebrity Culture

Essays in Celebrity Culture

The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

The Extreme in Contemporary Culture

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics

Nuclear Cultures

Nuclear Cultures

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email