Imagining Ecocatastrophe : Reading Literary and Cultural Texts in the Global Context (Hardcover)

PART I: ANTHROPOCENE, ECOCATASTROPHE AND APOCALYPSE?1. “We Have So Little Time Left”: Portrayal of Environmental Catastrophe in Selected Poems from?Reckoning??2.?Unmasking the Risks of Climate Change in Liz Jensen’s?The Rapture?3. Maja Lunde’s?The End of the Ocean: A Narrative of Climate Change and Environmental Crisis?4. Subverting Anthropocentrism: A Critical Study of J. G. Ballard’s?The Wind from Nowhere?5.?Kim Stanley Robinson’s?The Ministry for The Future: A Tale of Transcending Climate “Catastrophism”?PART II: VULNERABILITY, PRECARITY AND RESILIENCE?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?7. Precarious Selves, (Dis)abled Bodies and Post-apocalyptic Narratives?8.?Ecocatastrophe in the Literary Imagination: Confronting the Anthropocene through Narratives of Ecoprecarity from North-East India?PART III: RESOURCE EXTRACTION, ECO-INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE?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?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?PART IV: DISASTER(S) AND DYSTOPIAN IMAGINARIES?11. The Literary Dimensions of Pagan Spirituality in Fictionalizing the Nuclear Tierratraumatic Experience?12. Some Things Are More Equal Than Others:? Or, How to Read?On the Beach?13. Gender, Famine, and Masculinities: An Ecofeminist Insight into the Irish Great Hunger?14. The Ecology of Reading Lithuanian Dystopia: The Cases of?Dorandobongas?by Jurgis Volandas and??ko?by Valdas Papievis?PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER IN CINEMA?15.?Don’t Look Up: Political Satire Crashes into the Contemporary Disaster Film?16. The City Τhat (Never) Dies: Film Noir Imagines the Urban Disorder, Disease and Disaster?17. ‘Toward an Otherwise’: Decolonizing Epistemology and Ecology in?The Last Wave?18. Scorched Earth and Precarious Existence: A Study of Indian Anthropocene in Bollywood Films?Kadvi Hawa?and?Jal?PART VI: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CRITICAL THINKING IN OTHER CULTURAL MEDIA?19. From One World to Another: Immersion in Digital Games and its Relevance for Climate Change?20. Geopolitics of Climate Change Cartoons: Exploring Everyday Resistance through Visual Discourse