| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 159 pages) |
| Series |
Ecocritical theory and practice |
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Ecocritical theory and practice.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism -- India -- Bhopal
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Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Indic.
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Ecocriticism
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
India
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India -- Bhopal
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021677883 |
| ISBN |
9781498540469 |
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1498540465 |
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