LEADER 02371nam 2200433 450 001 9910825255303321 005 20230126215802.0 010 $a1-4985-4046-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000001038876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5115424 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001038876 100 $a20171129h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBhopal's ecological gothic $edisaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny /$fPramod K. Nayar 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (183 pages) 225 1 $aEcocritical Theory and Practice 311 $a1-4985-4045-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $gIntroduction:$tBhopal, disaster, precarity --$g1$tThe prefiguration of disaster --$g2$tThe event of disaster --$g3$tBhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting --$g4$tBhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature --$g5$tBhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony --$gConclusion:$t"Burial of an unknown child" as icon. 330 $aStudies the cultural texts--fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports--produced around the world's worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological perspective, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After presenting the history of the disaster in terms of negligence, the book examines the coverage of the events as well as accounts by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally,Bhopal's Ecological Gothic describes the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide. -- Back cover. 410 0$aEcocritical theory and practice. 606 $aEcocriticism$zIndia$zBhopal 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aEcocriticism 676 $a809.9336 700 $aNayar$b Pramod K.$0627133 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825255303321 996 $aBhopal's ecological gothic$94015544 997 $aUNINA