Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

Essays in Critical Perspectives

Scott Slovic editor Joyjit Ghosh editor Samit Kumar Maiti editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:15th Aug '23

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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.

ISBN: 9781666936414

Dimensions: 238mm x 161mm x 25mm

Weight: 572g

258 pages