Capitalist world-ecology, food crisis, and embodied aesthetics in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

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Abstract

Kamala Markandaya's first novel, Nectar in a Sieve, is marked by the pressures of food and food crisis in mid 20th century India. This essay explores through imaginative works the contexts and the contours of colonialist capitalism-led starvation in late-colonial India through which it argues for the struggles for food that postcolonial India had anticipated.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers of South Asian Culture
Subtitle of host publicationNation, Trans-nation and Beyond
EditorsParichay Patra, Amitendu Bhattacharya
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter12
Pages172-183
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9781032231693
Publication statusPublished - 12 Sept 2023

Publication series

NameRoutledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
PublisherRoutledge

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Food, Hunger, Nation, Postcolonial, Kamala Markandaya

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