Bhopal's Ecological Gothic by Pramod K Nayar
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.-
The Green Thread
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Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871
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Modernism and the Anthropocene
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Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature
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Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature
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Ecotheology in the Humanities
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The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest
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Confronting Climate Crises through Education
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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
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Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
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The End of the Anthropocene
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Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
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Environmental Postcolonialism
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Avenging Nature
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An Island in the Stream
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The Ecopolitics of Consumption
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Ecocriticism of the Global South
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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Dark Nature
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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India
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Romantic Ecocriticism
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Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950
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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape
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Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction
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Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
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Water in Medieval Literature
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Ecocriticism in Taiwan
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Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
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Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
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Victorian Ecocriticism
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Towards the River's Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati
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The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
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New International Voices in Ecocriticism
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Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
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Ecofeminism in Dialogue
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Seeing Animals after Derrida
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Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature
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The Human-Animal Boundary
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Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel
Pramod KNayar’s book, Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny, offers a significant expansion of that limited cultural archive. Nayar engages a large textual corpus that includes fiction, drama, documentary and dramatic film, eye-witness accounts, photography, and Bhopali acts of political protest. . . . If much of ecohorror articulates environmental anxieties and fears in a cautionary mode of potential catastrophe, Nayar offers an important corrective, locating the ecological Gothic in a recent past and ongoing present. Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic will be of interest to researchers in postcolonial, environmental, disability, and disaster studies, and will likely spur further examinations into its textual sources. * South Asian Review *
Pramod K. Nayar’s application of the Gothic paradigm to texts emerging from the 1984 Bhopal disaster is a startling contribution to material ecocriticism and environmental justice ecocriticism. The Bhopal Gothic, in clarifying the haunted reality of this iconic event, also points to the precarity of our entire planet in the twenty-first century. This is a powerful and important book. -- Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
Pramod Nayar's incisive reading of Bhopal brings cultural studies methodologies to bear on some of the most acutely pressing issues of our times. In our contemporary Anthropocene, we need activist-intellectual work of this type more urgently than ever before. -- Russell West-Pavlov, Universität Tübingen
Pramod K. Nayar’s application of the Gothic paradigm to texts emerging from the 1984 Bhopal disaster is a startling contribution to material ecocriticism and environmental justice ecocriticism. The Bhopal Gothic, in clarifying the haunted reality of this iconic event, also points to the precarity of our entire planet in the twenty-first century. This is a powerful and important book. -- Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute
Pramod Nayar's incisive reading of Bhopal brings cultural studies methodologies to bear on some of the most acutely pressing issues of our times. In our contemporary Anthropocene, we need activist-intellectual work of this type more urgently than ever before. -- Russell West-Pavlov, Universität Tübingen
Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498540452 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498540457 |
| Title | Bhopal's Ecological Gothic |
| Author | Pramod K Nayar |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory And Practice |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2017-11-22 |
| Number of pages | 182 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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