{"product_id":"9783032017758","title":"Exploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene","description":"\u003ch1\u003eExploring Dark Comedy in Ecological Literature: Echoes of Laughter in the Capitalocene\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRahmatullah, Mohammad; Gupta, Tanu; Kumar, Nagendra\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this textbook, ‘dark comedy’ is re-imagined as an ecological instrument: a volatile compound of irony, grotesquerie, and mischievous insight that exposes the carbonised scaffolding of late-capitalist life. Rather than sneering at catastrophe, the chapters anatomise the mechanics—defamiliarising punch line, carnival inversion, affective whiplash—by which humour slips past guard-dogs and rouses an anaesthetised public. The horizon against which this inquiry unfolds is the Capitalocene: a name that indicts capitalism, not “Man,” as the principal geological agent of ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from Aristophanes to Atwood, from street theatre to streaming satire, each text shows laughter doing intellectual lifting. In one moment it fractures complacent common sense; in the next it stitches together circuits of feeling in which eco-grief can transmute into civic resolve. Juxtaposed with the authority of tragic form, dark comedy proves the more permeable solvent: it dissolves cultural defences, lets paradox breathe, and leaves readers wondering how ecosystems became punch-lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMethodologically the book is multidisciplinary. Literary tangles with environmental philosophy; humour theory quarrels with eco-Marxism; cultural studies supplies the ethnographic grit that keeps abstraction honest. By braiding those strands the argument departs from standard ecocritical curricula, insisting that jokes are not side-shows but catalytic sites where ethics, affect, and political economy collide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned for advanced undergraduates yet hospitable to researchers, the volume refuses the consolations of easy optimism even as it gestures toward actionable hope. Its wager is simple: teach readers to hear the subversive crackle inside dark laughter and they may also learn to re-script the damaged world that provokes it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-10-02\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032017758\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-01776-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 210\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44371441057932,"sku":"9783032017758","price":80.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032017758.jpg?v=1774144913","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032017758","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}