This volume is a collection of ten essays that direct their gaze to
the unfolding of contagions in the non-classical contexts of Asia
and Africa. Or, to borrow from the title of one of Partha
Chatterjee's books, they are reflections on the pandemic in most of
the world. Featuring many scholars (of the humanities and social
sciences) in the Global South, these chapters take as their
intellectual focus the political-social as well as the ethical
challenges posed by the contagions in the "East." Through analyses
of literary narratives/films/video games, this Contagion Narratives
traces the manufactured narratives of victimization by
majority-communities and the lethal divides consequently being
drawn between a reconstituted "authentic majority" and the more
vulnerable minority 'other' in these societies. The essays in this
collection are animated by imaginations of liveable alternatives on
a planet on the brink. This volume traces lineages to Buchi
Emecheta and Rabindranath Tagore rather than Albert Camus, to
Satyajit Ray and the indie traditions rather than Hollywood, and to
Buddhism rather than Christianity, to track the historic journeys
of "modernity." Using an eclectic set of analytical tools and
strategies of textual criticism, this volume argues that ideas of
"democracy," even while they carry echoes of other societies, are
markedly different as they travel from Gaddafi's Libya to Wuhan
under lockdown to colonial Bengal.
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