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Book SynopsisEcodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, nonfiction, and poetry among other contemporary literary genres that open our eyes to today’s burning issues of global warming, climate change, pollution of air and water bodies, deforestation, and species extinction. The volume addresses the staunch ecological consciousness reflected in Rabindranath Tagore’s writings from the early twentieth century, indigenous responses to ecodisaster, and the portrayal of ecodisaster in selected Indian movies which raise questions of human rights violations in the face of manmade disaster and environmental crisis.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh and Samit Kumar Maiti
Chapter 1. Imagining Tropical Cyclones in Fiction: Representation of Cyclone Disaster in Selected Indian Novels in English
Sk Tarik Ali
Chapter 2. Green Criminology and the Himalayas: Re-visiting the Eco-disaster in Kedarnath Valley
Shruti Das
Chapter 3. Mythical Imagination and the Young Minds: A Reading of Geeta Dharmarajan’s Ma Ganga and the Razai Box as a Metaphor of Hope in Disaster
Dona Soman and Renu Bhadola Dangwal
Chapter 4. The Trope of the Imperiled Earth in Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland
Sharada Allamneni
Chapter 5. Land, Trauma, and Family: An Ecocritical Reading of Perumal Murugan’s Rising Heat in the Anthropocene
Risha Baruah
Chapter 6. A Vulnerable City, Environmental Apocalypse, and the “Politics” of Climate Disaster: A Comparative Study of The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay and A Cloud Called Bhura
Samrat Laskar
Chapter 7. Negotiating Mourning and Trauma: Imagining the Repertoire in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams
Richa Joshi Pandey and Dheeraj Pandey
Chapter 8. Writing the Grotesque: Poisoned Bodies and Toxic Environment in Ambikasutan Mangad’s Swarga
Sonalika Chaturvedi and Renu Bhadola Dangwal
Chapter 9. The Culture of Modernity and Ecological Change: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Joydip Ghosh and Tajuddin Ahmed
Chapter 10. Romanticizing Greenness: A Reading of Rabindranath Tagore from an Eco-theological Perspective
Goutam Buddha Sural
Chapter 11. Ecological Violence, Peripheral Voices, and the need for Climate Justice: Reading Jacinta Kerketta, the Voice of Contemporary Jharkhand
Shreya Bhattacharji and Roshan Raj Singh
Chapter 12. “Cry, children/cry the silence of the earth”: Representation of Climate Change, Environmental Disaster, and Species Extinction in Contemporary Indian Ecopoetry
Joyjit Ghosh
Chapter 13. “The Mangroves are home to predators of every kind”: Performing Ecoprecarity in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban
Ashwarya Samkaria and Debajyoti Biswas
Chapter 14. The Bollywood Representation of the Bhopal Gas Disaster: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Debabrata Modak and Tarakeshwar Senapati
Chapter 15. Radical Landscapes: Analysing Ecodisaster and Human Rights Violations in Irada and Kadvi Hawa
Devapriya Sanyal
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