Ecodisaster and Dystopian Imagination: Global Perspectives in Literature and Culture
Ecodisaster and Dystopian Imagination: Global Perspectives in Literature and Culture
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This open access book explores how ecodisaster narratives and dystopian elements in literature and culture provide us with a rich framework for dissecting the pressing ethical and metaphysical concerns that threaten human agency and the authentic existence of life-forms across the globe. The volume delves deep into the dynamic ideas related to the 'human-nonhuman-nature-culture interface,' examines the recent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary trends in the cultural representations of disaster at different levels across the globe, and explores the cross-currents in the discourse of environmental humanities.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Table of Contents
Scott Slovic
Introduction
Soumyadeep Chakraborty and Indrajit Mukherjee
1. Naturalising Ecodiaster: The Politics of Indifference and Denial
Diganta Bhattacharya
2. Scenes of Debris: Ecodisaster Narratives and the Ekphrastic Eye
Caren Irr
3. In/Human Aesthetics: On the Scale, Form, and Politics of the Mid-Century Ecodisaster Fiction
Rajdeep Pathak and Raktima Bhuyan
4. “Nothing will ever be as brave again”: The Melodramatic Mode in Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations
Akshata Sharad Pai
5. “Land of Habitation has transformed itself into Land of Execution”: The Mahabharata, Nuclear Holocaust and Ecological Intrigue in Koustav Bhattacharya's Adi Parva
Souvik Kar
6. Unaccommodated Man Adrift on the Pale Blue Dot: Disaster, Migration and Borders in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island
Dhrubajyoti Banerjee
7. Interrogating Eco Disaster in Indian Cinema: A Reading of Jal, Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain and Kaun Kitne Paani Mein
Devapriya Sanyal
8. History Men and Half Lives: Mad Max and the Question of Post-Apocalyptic Historiography
Alan Mattli
9. Ecodisaster, Extinction, and the Tense of an Ending
Patrick Whitmarsh
10. Moving Beyond Resource Extractivism: A Critical Reading of Sultana's Dream as a Solar Power Utopia
Shalini Pathayad and Swarnalatha Rangarajan
11. Alternatives to Ecodisaster in Contemporary Literature: Susan Straight's and Olga Tokarczuk's Works
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
12. “Sugar in the blood”: Reading David Dabydeen's Slave Song in the Context of the Plantationocene
Shayeari Dutta
13. Mapping the 'Geotrauma': Alexis Wright's The Swan Book as a Narrativisation of Ecological Entanglements
Sibendu Chakraborty
14. Ecodisaster, Human Agency and the Emotional Politics of Reclaim in Brian Fies's A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir
Saranya Sen and Paromita Mukherjee
15. Architectural Ethologies of the Post-apocalyptic Anthropocene: Survivalist Construction and World-building in Nausicaä
Subashish Bhattacharjee
Afterword
Timo Muller
Product details
| Published | 12 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216454908 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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