Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
Seiten
2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4045-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4045-2 (ISBN)
The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts—from fiction to protest effigies and posters – and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.
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.
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.
Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.
Introduction: Bhopal, Disaster, Precarity
Chapter 1: The Prefiguration of Disaster
Chapter 2: The Event of Disaster
Chapter 3: Bhopal’s Biopolitical Uncanny I: The Nature of Haunting
Chapter 4: Bhopal’s Biopolitical Uncanny II: The Haunting of Nature
Chapter 5: Bhopal’s Precarity: Toxic History and Thanatopolitics in the Postcolony
Conclusion: ‘Burial of an Unknown Child’ as Icon
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Zusatzinfo | 7 BW Photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-4045-7 / 1498540457 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-4045-2 / 9781498540452 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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