Pramod K. Nayar

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic (eBook, ePUB)

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498540469
• Artikelnr.: 49658686

Autorenporträt

Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bhopal, Disaster, Precarity
Chapter 1: The Prefiguration of Disaster
Chapter 2: The Event of Disaster
Chapter 3: Bhopal's Biopolitical Uncanny I: The Nature of Haunting
Chapter 4: Bhopal's Biopolitical Uncanny II: The Haunting of Nature
Chapter 5: Bhopal's Precarity: Toxic History and Thanatopolitics in the
Postcolony
Conclusion: 'Burial of an Unknown Child' as Icon