02371nam 2200433 450 991082525530332120230126215802.01-4985-4046-5(CKB)4100000001038876(MiAaPQ)EBC5115424(EXLCZ)99410000000103887620171129h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierBhopal's ecological gothic disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny /Pramod K. NayarLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2017.©20171 online resource (183 pages)Ecocritical Theory and Practice1-4985-4045-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction:Bhopal, disaster, precarity --1The prefiguration of disaster --2The event of disaster --3Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting --4Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature --5Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony --Conclusion:"Burial of an unknown child" as icon.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 landscape and its people are Gothicized. After presenting the history of the disaster in terms of negligence, the book examines the coverage of the events as well as accounts by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally,Bhopal's Ecological Gothic describes the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide. -- Back cover.Ecocritical theory and practice.EcocriticismIndiaBhopalIndiaSocial conditions20th centuryEcocriticism809.9336Nayar Pramod K.627133MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825255303321Bhopal's ecological gothic4015544UNINA