Ecodisaster and Dystopian Imagination
Global Perspectives in Literature and Culture
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Ecodisaster and Dystopian Imagination
Global Perspectives in Literature and Culture
- Open Access
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Description
This open access volume 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.
Table of Contents
Scott Slovic
Introduction: Critical Perspectives in Global Ecodystopias
Soumyadeep Chakraborty and Indrajit Mukherjee
Part I: Ecodisaster and Postapocalyptic Predicaments
Chapter 1: Naturalising Ecodiaster: The Politics of Indifference and Denial
Diganta Bhatacharya
Chapter 2:Scenes of Debris: Ecodisaster Narratives and the Ekphrastic Eye
Caren Irr
Chapter 3: 'Nothing will ever be as brave again': The melodramatic Mode in Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations
Akshata Sharad Pai
Part II: Ecodisaster and the Western Metaphysics of Modernity
Chapter 4: History Men and Half Lives: Mad Max and the Question of Postapocalyptic Historiography
Alan Mattli
Chapter 5: Extinction, Ecodisaster, and the Global Corporate Dystopias of Martin MacInnes
Patrick Whitmarsh
Chapter 6: “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
Part III: Ecodisaster and Alternative Worldview
Chapter 7: An Ecofeminist Solarpunk Reading of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's?Sultana's Dream?and Ursula K. Le Guin's?The Dispossessed
Shalini Pathayad and Swarnalatha Rangarajan
Chapter 8: Another World Is Possible: Alternatives to Ecodisaster in Susan Straight's and Olga Tokarczuk's Works
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice
Part IV: Ecodisaster, Trauma, and Colonial Entanglements
Chapter 9: 'Sugar in the blood': Reading David Dabydeen's Slave Song in the Context of the Plantationocene
Shayeari Dutta
Chapter 10: Mapping the Geotrauma: Alexis Wright's?The Swan Book?as a Narrative of Ecological Entanglements
Sibendu Chakraborty
Part V: Ecodisaster and Graphic Narratives
Chapter 11: Ecodisaster, Human Agency and the Emotional Politics of Reclaim in Brian Fies'sA Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir
Saranya Sen and Paromita Mukherjee
Chapter 12: Architectural Ethologies of the Post-apocalyptic Anthropocene: Survivalist Construction and World-building in Nausicaä
Subashish?Bhattacharjee
Afterword
Timo Müller
Product details
| Published | 04 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798216454922 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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