The Anthropocene as Impasse: Optimism, cynicism, and the desire for justice in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

This paper reads Indra Sinha’s novel Animal’s People (2007) for its representation of the impasse that develops in the wake of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984) as its victims wait endlessly for justice. I examine the narrative form that the impasse takes in the novel, detailing how the stagnancy and fr...

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