The book studies the cultural textsfiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reportsproduced around the worlds worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster the haunting within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.

Pramod K. Nayar teaches English at the University of Hyderabad, India.

Introduction: Bhopal, Disaster, Precarity
Chapter 1: The Prefiguration of Disaster
Chapter 2: The Event of Disaster
Chapter 3: Bhopals Biopolitical Uncanny I: The Nature of Haunting
Chapter 4: Bhopals Biopolitical Uncanny II: The Haunting of Nature
Chapter 5: Bhopals Precarity: Toxic History and Thanatopolitics in the Postcolony
Conclusion: Burial of an Unknown Child as Icon