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News from Anthony Carrigan

Research Grant and New Publications

19.09.2012

Anthony Carrigan has published an article that he completed during his fellowship with the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. “‘Justice is on our side’? Animal’s People, Generic Hybridity, and Eco-crime” examines Indra Sinha’s portrayal of the Bhopal Gas disaster in his recent novel Animal’s People and focuses particularly on how the text represents the disaster as an eco-crime. Click here for a pre-print final draft version; please note that any citations should come from the final published version in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Furthermore, Carrigan has also received a research networking grant (worth almost  €38,000) in collaboration with Dr. Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) which is co-funded by the AHRC (Arts Humanities Research Council and NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) in order to facilitate UK-Dutch partnerships. The project begins in September 2012 and is entitled “The cultural politics of catastrophe: (Post)colonial representations of Southeast Asian and Caribbean disasters, 1800-2012.” The network will explore how historical perspectives on, and cultural responses to, natural disasters in areas with British and Dutch colonial histories can contribute to understanding the challenges of sustaining community in the context of catastrophe. The network will be organized around four workshops hosted alternately at Leiden and Keele University in 2013-14.

Finally, a paperback edition of Carrigan’s book, Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment, will be released by Routledge in October 2012.