Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

by Pramod K. Nayar
Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

by Pramod K. Nayar

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498540469
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 11/22/2017
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 182
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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
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