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’ as Icon
Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.
Pramod K. Nayar’s application of the Gothic paradigm to texts
emerging from the 1984 Bhopal disaster is a startling contribution
to material ecocriticism and environmental justice ecocriticism.
The Bhopal Gothic, in clarifying the haunted reality of this iconic
event, also points to the precarity of our entire planet in the
twenty-first century. This is a powerful and important book.
*Scott Slovic, University of Idaho, coeditor of The Routledge
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication*
Pramod Nayar's incisive reading of Bhopal brings cultural studies
methodologies to bear on some of the most acutely pressing issues
of our times. In our contemporary Anthropocene, we need
activist-intellectual work of this type more urgently than ever
before.
*Russell West-Pavlov, Universität Tübingen*
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