Ecodisaster imaginaries in India : essays in critical perspectives / edited by Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh and Samit Kumar Maiti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh and Samit Kumar Maiti -- Imagining tropical cyclones in fiction : representation of cyclone disaster in selected Indian novels in English / Sk Tarik Ali -- Green criminology and the Himalayas : Re-visiting the eco-disaster in Kedarnath valley / Shruti Das -- 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 -- The trope of the imperiled earth in Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and The lowland / Sharada Allamneni -- Land, trauma, and family : an ecocritical reading of Perumal Murugan's Rising heat in the Anthropocene / Risha Baruah -- 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 -- Negotiating mourning and trauma : imagining the repertoire in Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams / Richa Joshi Pandey and Dheeraj Pandey -- Writing the grotesque : poisoned bodies and toxic environment in Ambikasutan Mangad's Swarga / Sonalika Chaturvedi and Renu Bhadola Dangwal -- 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 -- Romanticizing greenness : a reading of Rabindranath Tagore from an ecotheological perspective / Goutam Buddha Sural -- Ecological violence, peripheral voices, and the need for climate justice : reading Jacinta Kerketta, the voice of contemporary Jharkhand / Shreya Bhattacharji and Roshan Raj Singh -- "Cry, children/cry the silence of the earth" : Representation of climate change, environmental disaster, and species extinction in contemporary Indian ecopoetry / Joyjit Ghosh -- "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 -- The Bollywood Representation of the Bhopal Gas Disaster : a Foucauldian discourse analysis / Debabrata Modak and tarakeshwar Senapati -- Radical landscapes : analysing ecodisaster and human rights violations in Irada and Kadvi Hawa / Devapriya Sanyal.

"Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives contains 15 essays that approach contemporary literary and cultural representations of ecological disaster in India from various theoretical angles. The studies engage with many of today's pressing ecological issues by carefully examining these diverse texts"-- $cProvided by publisher.