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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nayar, Pramod K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Ecocriticism > India > Bhopal.
Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.
Écocritique > Inde > Bhopāl.
Catastrophe de Bhopāl, Bhopāl, Inde, 1984.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Indic.
Ecocriticism
Social conditions
India > Social conditions > 20th century.
Inde > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
India
India > Bhopal
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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