Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny

Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny /

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 perspective, wherein the city, its landsc...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Nayar, Pramod K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017
Series:Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subjects:
Ecocriticism > India > Bhopal.
Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.
India > Social conditions > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Bhopal, disaster, precarity
  • 1 The prefiguration of disaster
  • 2 The event of disaster
  • 3 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting
  • 4 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature
  • 5 Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony
  • Conclusion: "Burial of an unknown child" as icon.

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