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 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.
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.
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 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 About the Contributors
