Pramod K. Nayar

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny

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Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts-from fiction to protest effigies and posters - and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.

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Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9781498540452
• ISBN-10: 1498540457
• Artikelnr.: 48896089

Autorenporträt

Pramod K Nayar is Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His work in postcolonial studies includes Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (2012), English Writing and India, 1600-1920:Colonizing Aesthetics (2008)and Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction (2008). His interests in cultural studies include superheroes, consumer culture, 'cool', posthumanism and new media cultures, and his work here includes Posthumanism ( 2013)An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006) and Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004) besides numerous essays on cyberculture and, more recently, on human rights narratives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bhopal, Disaster, Precarity Chapter 1: The Prefiguration of
Disaster Chapter 2: The Event of Disaster Chapter 3: Bhopal's Biopolitical
Uncanny I: The Nature of Haunting Chapter 4: Bhopal's Biopolitical Uncanny
II: The Haunting of Nature Chapter 5: Bhopal's Precarity: Toxic History and
Thanatopolitics in the Postcolony Conclusion: 'Burial of an Unknown Child'
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