Transformative hope towards subversive resilience: the ethical roles of newspaper articles by Indian writers during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Diego Sánchez, Jorge

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Transformative hope towards subversive resilience: the ethical roles of newspaper articles by Indian writers during the Covid-19 outbreak.

dc.contributor.author	Diego Sánchez, Jorge
dc.contributor.department	Sin departamento asociado	es
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-25T09:35:06Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-25T09:35:06Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	This article studies Indian writing in the English language published in English newspapers (Indian, Bangladeshi, British, US) during the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in India (March 22–May 25, 2020). The selected authors include Arundhati Roy, Tishani Doshi, Anuradha Roy, and Prayaag Akbar, to illustrate the transnational consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak in different areas of India and analyse the narratology of resilience to articulate ethical knowledge against regional, national, and international stereotypes. I propose the concept transformative hope as an oppositional complaint (Bargués et al., 2024; Braithwaite, 2004; Giroux, 2004) against political and representational systems of domain articulated against the capitalist politics of who can afford to survive. This study shows a possible subversive resilience (Bracke, 2016; Darías-Beautell, 2020; Fraile-Marcos, 2020a; O’Brien, 2015) that, together with writing and reading, can implement alliance, rather than affiliation, and praises an ethical and transformative hope that dissents against the resilient appropriation of neoliberalism to benefit from tragedies like Covid-19.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Diego Sánchez, J. (2025). Transformative hope towards subversive resilience:: The ethical roles of newspaper articles by Indian writers during the Covid-19 outbreak. International Journal of English Studies, 25(2), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.658251
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.658251
dc.identifier.eissn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/213041
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	This article has been published thanks to the support given by the Research Project “Narrating Resilience, Achieving Happiness?” (funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation - PID2020-113190GB-C22 naresh.usal.es) and “Aquatic Imaginaries: Re-charting Indoceanic and Atlantic Literary Productions” (funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation - PID2022-141118NB-I00 ratnakara.org).
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dc.subject	Indian writing in English	en
dc.subject	Covid-19	en
dc.subject	Transformative hope	en
dc.subject	Subversive resilience	en
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Transformative hope towards subversive resilience: the ethical roles of newspaper articles by Indian writers during the Covid-19 outbreak.	en
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