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

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

Nayar, Pramod K.

Hardcover

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1498540457
ISBN13: 9781498540452
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 22 2017
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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