Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny / / Pramod K. Nayar

• Autore: Nayar Pramod K.
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (183 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.9336
• Soggetto topico: Ecocriticism - India - Bhopal
• Soggetto geografico: India Social conditions 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bhopal's ecological gothic
• ISBN: 1-4985-4046-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796654203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ecocritical theory and practice.