Faculty Publication - Dr. Baron Haber

Congrats to Dr. Baron Habor for his recent publication "Monster Ecologies: Material Eco-Rhapsody and the Bio-Gothic in Animal’s People" in Ariel. Learn more from the abstract and in the January 2024 issue of Ariel:
"This article analyzes how Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People incorporates bio-gothic aesthetics to address the unprecedented ontological, perceptual, and political challenges presented by the Bhopal Chemical Disaster. Bio-gothic aesthetics refer to biological substrates in order to represent a “trans-corporeal” body (Alaimo), one enmeshed with a damaged environment, where disruptions to the ecosystem return to disturb the so-called normal behavior of the body. Sinha’s novel represents a tropic character from gothic fiction, the monster, to perform an embodied critique of neoliberal globalization.... The bio-gothic monster serves as a site where the seemingly-immaterial flows of global capitalism become-enfleshed, and, therefore, as a key node around which new, feral assemblages can be formed in the pursuit of postcolonial environmental justice."