Bhopal's Ecological Gothic : Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny Hardback
by Pramod K. Nayar
Part of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:22/11/2017
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- ISBN:9781498540452
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:22/11/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781498540452
