Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India
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Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

Essays in Critical Perspectives

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Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

Essays in Critical Perspectives

About this book

Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today's burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore's writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.

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Yes, you can access Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India by Scott Slovic,Joyjit Ghosh,Samit Kumar Maiti in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Imagining Tropical Cyclones in Fiction: Representation of Cyclone Disaster in Selected Indian Novels in English
  7. Chapter 2: Green Criminology and the Himalayas: Revisiting the Ecodisaster in Kedarnath Valley
  8. Chapter 3: Mythical Imagination and the Young Minds: A Reading of Geeta Dharmarajan’s Ma Ganga and the Razai Box as a Metaphor of Hope in Disaster
  9. Chapter 4: The Trope of the Imperilled Earth in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland
  10. Chapter 5: Land, Trauma, and Family: An Ecocritical Reading of Perumal Murugan’s Rising Heat in the Anthropocene
  11. Chapter 6: A Vulnerable City, Environmental Apocalypse, and the “Politics” of Climate Disaster: A Comparative Study of The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay and A Cloud Called Bhura
  12. Chapter 7: Negotiating Mourning and Trauma: Imagining the Repertoire in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams
  13. Chapter 8: Writing the Grotesque: Poisoned Bodies and Toxic Environment in Ambikasutan Mangad’s Swarga: A Posthuman Tale
  14. Chapter 9: The Culture of Modernity and Ecological Change: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
  15. Chapter 10: Romanticizing Greenness: A Reading of Rabindranath Tagore from an Eco-theological Perspective
  16. Chapter 11: Ecological Violence, Peripheral Voices, and the Need for Climate Justice: Reading Jacinta Kerketta, the Voice of Contemporary Jharkhand
  17. Chapter 12: “Cry, children / cry the silence of the earth”: Representation of Climate Change, Environmental Disaster, and Species Extinction in Contemporary Indian Ecopoetry
  18. Chapter 13: “The Mangroves are home to predators of every kind”: Performing Ecoprecarity in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban
  19. Chapter 14: The Bollywood Representation of the Bhopal Gas Disaster: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
  20. Chapter 15: Radical Landscapes: Analysing Ecodisaster and Human Rights Violations in Irada and Kadvi Hawa
  21. About the Contributors