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

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 landsc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nayar, Pramod K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Colección:Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |g Introduction:  |t Bhopal, disaster, precarity --  |g 1  |t The prefiguration of disaster --  |g 2  |t The event of disaster --  |g 3  |t Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting --  |g 4  |t Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature --  |g 5  |t Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony --  |g Conclusion:  |t "Burial of an unknown child" as icon. 
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