{"product_id":"ecodisaster-imaginaries-in-india-essays-in-critical-perspectives-9781666936414","title":"Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcodisaster 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh and Samit Kumar Maiti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Imagining Tropical Cyclones in Fiction: Representation of Cyclone Disaster in Selected Indian Novels in English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSk Tarik Ali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Green Criminology and the Himalayas: Re-visiting the Eco-disaster in Kedarnath Valley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShruti Das\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDona Soman and Renu Bhadola Dangwal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Trope of the Imperiled Earth in Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharada Allamneni\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Land, Trauma, and Family: An Ecocritical Reading of Perumal Murugan’s Rising Heat in the Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRisha Baruah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamrat Laskar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Negotiating Mourning and Trauma: Imagining the Repertoire in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicha Joshi Pandey and Dheeraj Pandey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Writing the Grotesque: Poisoned Bodies and Toxic Environment in Ambikasutan Mangad’s Swarga\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonalika Chaturvedi and Renu Bhadola Dangwal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Culture of Modernity and Ecological Change: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoydip Ghosh and Tajuddin Ahmed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Romanticizing Greenness: A Reading of Rabindranath Tagore from an Eco-theological Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoutam Buddha Sural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Ecological Violence, Peripheral Voices, and the need for Climate Justice: Reading Jacinta Kerketta, the Voice of Contemporary Jharkhand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShreya Bhattacharji and Roshan Raj Singh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. “Cry, children\/cry the silence of the earth”: Representation of Climate Change, Environmental Disaster, and Species Extinction in Contemporary Indian Ecopoetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyjit Ghosh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. “The Mangroves are home to predators of every kind”: Performing Ecoprecarity in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshwarya Samkaria and Debajyoti Biswas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. The Bollywood Representation of the Bhopal Gas Disaster: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebabrata Modak and Tarakeshwar Senapati\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Radical Landscapes: Analysing Ecodisaster and Human Rights Violations in Irada and Kadvi Hawa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevapriya Sanyal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042034352471,"sku":"9781666936414","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666936414.jpg?v=1750952722","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecodisaster-imaginaries-in-india-essays-in-critical-perspectives-9781666936414","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}