{"title":"Adhira Mangalagiri","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdhira Mangalagiri’s works delve into the intricate layers of contemporary society, weaving narratives that explore the nuances of cultural identity and personal disconnection. Readers can expect thoughtful reflections on the intersections of history, art, and social experience, often presented through evocative, lyrical prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, her writing challenges perceptions and invites contemplation on the forces that shape our understanding of belonging and estrangement. These books offer a compelling journey for those interested in deepening their appreciation of modern cultural landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"states-of-disconnect-by-adhira-mangalagiri-9780231205689","title":"States of Disconnect","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating with others? Comparative literature has long been under the spell of circulation, contact, connectivity, and mobility—what if it instead sought out their antitheses?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/em\u003e examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Focusing on practices of comparison, Adhira Mangalagiri considers how these texts articulate the undesirability or impossibility of relating with national others, tracing portrayals of violence, silence, and distance. She proposes the concept of \"disconnect\": a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite their apparent insularity, texts of disconnect offer possibilities for relating ethically across national borders while resisting both narrow nationalisms and globalized habits of thought. Reading a variety of largely untranslated twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi short stories, novels, and poems, Mangalagiri develops three new strategies for comparison—friction, ellipses, and contingency—that together comprise a critical vocabulary of disconnect. Foregrounding transnationalism's discontents, \u003cem\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/em\u003e offers a different path by which literary texts can cultivate a critical sensibility for making sense of a world rife with division.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432652292332,"sku":"9780231205689","price":228.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231205689.jpg?v=1774556785"},{"product_id":"states-of-disconnect-by-adhira-mangalagiri-9780231205696","title":"States of Disconnect","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. 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