Imagining Ecocatastrophe

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.

• List of Contributors viiiAcknowledgements xvIntroduction 1PART IAnthropocene, Ecocatastrophe and Apocalypse 231 “We Have So Little Time Left”: Portrayal of Environmental Catastrophe in Selected Poems from Reckoning 25JOYJIT GHOSH2 Unmasking the Risks of Climate Change in Liz Jensen’s The Rapture 38MAHINUR GOZDE KASURKA3 Maja Lunde’s The End of the Ocean: A Narrative of Climate Change and Environmental Crisis 53SAUMYA PRIYA4 Subverting Anthropocentrism: A Critical Study of J. G. Ballard’s The Wind from Nowhere 64BAPIN MALLICK AND NIKHILESH DHAR5 Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for The Future: A Tale of Transcending Climate “Catastrophism” 72TUSHAR KANTI KARMAKARPART IIVulnerability, Precarity and Resilience 856 “Climate Plague”, Precarious Lives and Resilience in a Post-Apocalyptic World: Vignettes of Vulnerability inSequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark 87SK TARIK ALI7 Precarious Selves, (Dis)abled Bodies and Post-Apocalyptic Narratives 101ELWIN SUSAN JOHN8 Ecocatastrophe in the Literary Imagination: Confronting the Anthropocene through Narratives of Ecoprecarity from North-East India 111PADDAJA ROYPART IIIResource Extraction, Eco-Injustice and Resistance 1239 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 125MIR AHAMMAD ALI10 “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 140SHANKHA SHUBHRA MANDALPART IVDisaster(s) and Dystopian Imaginaries 15311 The Literary Dimensions of Pagan Spirituality in Fictionalising the Nuclear Tierratraumatic Experience 155INNA SUKHENKO12 Some Things Are More Equal Than Others: Or, How to Read On the Beach 170ANNA FRIEDA KUHN13 Gender, Famine and Masculinities: An Ecofeminist Insight into the Irish Great Hunger 178ASMAE OURKIYA14 The Ecology of Reading Lithuanian Dystopia: The Cases of Dorandobongas by Jurgis Volandas and Ėko by Valdas Papievis 192INDRĖ ŽAKEVIČIENĖPART VClimate Change and Environmental Disaster in Cinema 20915 Don’t Look Up: Political Satire Crashes into the Contemporary Disaster Film 211GEORGIOS DIMOGLOU16 The City Τhat (Never) Dies: Film Noir Imagines the Urban Disorder, Disease and Disaster 221DIMITRIS PAPACHARALAMPOUS17 “Toward an Otherwise”: Decolonising Epistemology and Ecology in The Last Wave 232WILL UNDERLAND AND MATTHEW SPENCER18 Scorched Earth and Precarious Existence: Representation of the Anthropocene in Bollywood Films Kadvi Hawa and Jal 242AMIT MANDALPART VIClimate Change and Critical Thinking in Other Cultural Media 25519 From One World to Another: Immersion in Digital Games and its Relevance for Climate Change 257LAURA AKERS20 Geopolitics of Climate Change Cartoons: Exploring Everyday Resistance through Visual Discourse 271SHIFANA P. A. AND ASHA SUSAN JACOBIndex 284