Professor Of English At The University Of Hyderabad: 2 books
Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
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...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...