The book 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 Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.
- ISBN10 1498540465
- ISBN13 9781498540469
- Publish Date 22 November 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lexington Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 182
- Language English