Imagining Ecocatastrophe

This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.

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Scott Slovic is a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and a distinguished professor of environmental humanities emeritus at the University of Idaho, USA.

Joyjit Ghosh is Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Cultural Studies, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

Samit Kumar Maiti is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal, India.

Inhalt

List of Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1

PART I

Anthropocene, Ecocatastrophe and Apocalypse 23

1 "We Have So Little Time Left": Portrayal of Environmental Catastrophe in Selected Poems from Reckoning 25

JOYJIT GHOSH

2 Unmasking the Risks of Climate Change in Liz Jensen's The Rapture 38

MAHINUR GOZDE KASURKA

3 Maja Lunde's The End of the Ocean: A Narrative of Climate Change and Environmental Crisis 53

SAUMYA PRIYA

4 Subverting Anthropocentrism: A Critical Study of J. G. Ballard's The Wind from Nowhere 64

BAPIN MALLICK AND NIKHILESH DHAR

5 Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for The Future: A Tale of Transcending Climate "Catastrophism" 72

TUSHAR KANTI KARMAKAR

PART II

Vulnerability, Precarity and Resilience 85

6 "Climate Plague", Precarious Lives and Resilience in a Post-Apocalyptic World: Vignettes of Vulnerability in

Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark 87

SK TARIK ALI

7 Precarious Selves, (Dis)abled Bodies and Post-Apocalyptic Narratives 101

ELWIN SUSAN JOHN

8 Ecocatastrophe in the Literary Imagination: Confronting the Anthropocene through Narratives of Ecoprecarity from North-East India 111

PADDAJA ROY

PART III

Resource Extraction, Eco-Injustice and Resistance 123

9 Eco-Anxiety, Trauma and Resilience of the Dongria Kond Tribe of India: Locating the Literary and Cultural Responses of the Niyamgiri Movement in the Global Scenario 125

MIR AHAMMAD ALI

10 "We Should Have Known Our Land Would Soon Be Dead": Resource Curse, Petro-Capital Extractivism and Survival Environmentalism in Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were 140

SHANKHA SHUBHRA MANDAL

PART IV

Disaster(s) and Dystopian Imaginaries 153

11 The Literary Dimensions of Pagan Spirituality in Fictionalising the Nuclear Tierratraumatic Experience 155

INNA SUKHENKO

12 Some Things Are More Equal Than Others: Or, How to Read On the Beach 170

ANNA FRIEDA KUHN

13 Gender, Famine and Masculinities: An Ecofeminist Insight into the Irish Great Hunger 178

ASMAE OURKIYA

14 The Ecology of Reading Lithuanian Dystopia: The Cases of Dorandobongas by Jurgis Volandas and ko by Valdas Papievis 192

INDR AKEVI IEN

PART V

Climate Change and Environmental Disaster in Cinema 209

15 Don't Look Up: Political Satire Crashes into the Contemporary Disaster Film 211

GEORGIOS DIMOGLOU

16 The City hat (Never) Dies: Film Noir Imagines the Urban Disorder, Disease and Disaster 221

DIMITRIS PAPACHARALAMPOUS

17 "Toward an Otherwise": Decolonising Epistemology and Ecology in The Last Wave 232

WILL UNDERLAND AND MATTHEW SPENCER

18 Scorched Earth and Precarious Existence: Representation of the Anthropocene in Bollywood Films Kadvi Hawa and Jal 242

AMIT MANDAL

PART VI

Climate Change and Critical Thinking in Other Cultural Media 255

19 From One World to Another: Immersion in Digital Games and its Relevance for Climate Change 257

LAURA AKERS

20 Geopolitics of Climate Change Cartoons: Exploring Everyday Resistance through Visual Discourse 271

SHIFANA P. A. AND ASHA SUSAN JACOB

Index 284