Bhopal's Ecological Gothic : Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
ISBN-10
1498540457
ISBN-13
9781498540452
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 2017
Print length
182 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.40 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts—from fiction to protest effigies and posters – and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.
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.
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