Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic

Chernobyl Trauma and GothicThis scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disasters collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.

Difficult Pastscombines book history

The book provides a valuable detailed analysis of specific examples of powerful documentary films and programmes such as Cathy Come Home

As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question

she made her home there

one of North America's leading Sanskritists and historians of early India

ecological and cultural balance

metaphors and the web

Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it

and his expertise and knowledge in this area are evident in this encyclopedic volume

including the interstitial

and languages

and there is a path to learn creativity through un-learning many of our habits picked up in life