1st Edition

The Environmental Graphic Novel How Green Is the Panel

By Pramod K. Nayar Copyright 2027
224 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Environmental Graphic Novel  examines this emerging genre for its themes of climate change, disaster and environmental justice. It underscores how the form encourages and sensitizes readers to ongoing environmental concerns from climate disaster to resistance and resilience.  Assuming that the eco-apocalyptic is not the sole means of spotlighting climate disaster, this book argues that... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction: Green Panels

Chapter 2: The Naturalist Graphic Auto/biography

The Book of Nature and the Nature Book

The Naturalist Bildungsroman I

The Naturalist Bildungsroman II

Chapter 3: Catastrophe, Ecohorror, Perishability

Ecohorror and Necropoetics

Catastrophic Chronotopes

Perishability and the Obliterative Sublime

Chapter 4: Infrastructures of Ecoprecarity

The Everyday Life of Infrastructure

Energy, Entropy and Exhaustion

Waste Infrastructure

Chapter 5: Green Survivance and Environmental Advocacy

Rhetorical Sovereignty

Histories, Places, Things

Moral Vernaculars, Survivance and Advocacy

Conclusion: Infrastructures of Climate Change

Biography

Pramod K. Nayar is Professor at the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India.