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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
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- English
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About this book
The book studies the cultural textsāfiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reportsāproduced 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 ā the haunting ā within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.
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Yes, you can access Bhopal's Ecological Gothic by Pramod K. Nayar in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Asian Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Prefiguration of Disaster
- 2 The Event of Disaster
- 3 Bhopalās Biopolitical Uncanny I
- 4 Bhopalās Biopolitical Uncanny II
- 5 Bhopalās Precarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author