Toxic Terror and the Cosmopolitanism of Risk in Indra Sinha's Animal's People

• Published in: Cross / Cultures Vol. 182; pp. 371 - 438
• Main Author: Levihn-Kutzler, Karsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Brill Academic Publishers, Inc 03.01.2015
• Subjects: Bildungsroman; Climate change; Culture; Disasters; Globalization; Novels; Postcolonialism; Society

"37 Given the preference in many contemporary media cultures for spectacular events rather than gradual processes, the demand for closure in narrative formats, and the unimaginably long time-spans involved in scenarios of toxic endangerment, slow violence often eludes representation and becomes...