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Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny

Title
  1. Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny / Pramod K. Nayar.
Published by
  1. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Nayar, Pramod K.

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Description
  1. xxii, 159 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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 perspective, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After presenting the history of the disaster in terms of negligence, the book examines the coverage of the events as well as accounts by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally,Bhopal's Ecological Gothic describes the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide. -- Back cover.
Series statement
  1. Ecocritical theory and practice
Uniform title
  1. Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subject
  1. Ecocriticism
  2. India
  3. India > Bhopal
  4. Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
  5. Ecocriticism > India > Bhopal
  6. Social conditions
  7. 1900-1999
  8. India > Social conditions > 20th century
  9. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
  10. Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster (India : 1984)
Contents
  1. Introduction: Bhopal, disaster, precarity -- 1 The prefiguration of disaster -- 2 The event of disaster -- 3 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting -- 4 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature -- 5 Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony -- Conclusion: "Burial of an unknown child" as icon.
Call number
  1. JFE 18-994
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Author
  1. Nayar, Pramod K., author.
Title
  1. Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny / Pramod K. Nayar.
Publisher
  1. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Copyright date
  1. ©2017
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Ecocritical theory and practice
  2. Ecocritical theory and practice.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
LCCN
  1. 2017956264
ISBN
  1. 1498540457 hardcover
  2. 9781498540452 hardcover
Research call number
  1. JFE 18-994
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