Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Brand: Lexington Books

Author: Nayar, Pramod K.

Number Of Pages: 182

EAN: 9781498540452

Release Date: 22-11-2017

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches

Details: 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.