Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

By:

Pramod K Nayar

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Hardback

Series:

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

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The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster – the haunting – within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.

Author Biography:

Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.

Release date Australia

November 22nd, 2017

Author

Pramod K Nayar

Series

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Pages

182

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Dimensions

161x237x18

ISBN-13

9781498540452

Product ID

27224053

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