Ecodisaster 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 todays 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 Tagores 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.
Acknowledgments
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
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3. Mythical Imagination and the Young Minds: A Reading of Geeta
Dharmarajans 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 Lahiris Unaccustomed Earth
and The Lowland
Sharada Allamneni
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5. Land, Trauma, and Family: An Ecocritical Reading of Perumal
Murugans 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 Markandayas The Coffer Dams
Richa Joshi Pandey and Dheeraj Pandey
Chapter
8. Writing the Grotesque: Poisoned Bodies and Toxic Environment in
Ambikasutan Mangads Swarga
Sonalika Chaturvedi and Renu Bhadola Dangwal
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9. The Culture of Modernity and Ecological Change: A Reading of
Amitav Ghoshs The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Joydip Ghosh and Tajuddin Ahmed
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10. Romanticizing Greenness: A Reading of Rabindranath Tagore from an
Eco-theological Perspective
Goutam Buddha Sural
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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
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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 Ghoshs 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
About the Contributors
Scott Slovic is professor of environmental humanities at the University of Idaho.
Joyjit Ghosh is professor in the English Department at Vidyasagar University.
Samit Kumar Maiti is professor in the English Department at Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya.
