Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, South & Southeast Asian
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Author: Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India ISBN: 9781498540469
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: November 22, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India
ISBN: 9781498540469
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: November 22, 2017
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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.

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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.

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