Shubhanku Kohcar Assistant Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi Since Renaissance, man has been exploring the world around him. Stimulated by curiosity, he has penetrated almost every corner of the planet. In the earlier phase, the curiosity was to know more and more about the unknown areas which was later accompanied by desire to…
Tag: ecocriticism
Reframing the Land and the Native Self: Interdisciplinary Observations in Contemporary Postcolonial Texts
Dr. K.N. Shoba Assistant Professor, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India. Rob Nixon, a postcolonial ecocritic, poses a critically crucial question: “What would it mean to bring environmentalism into dialogue with postcolonialism?” (233). The paper makes a modest attempt to address a few issues that would in turn help answering the question. Environmentalism or ecocriticism, which…
Nature and Ecocriticism in Cry, The Peacock and Fire on the Mountain.
C.G.Shyamala The study of the relationship between literature and the environment has fostered human attitudes toward the environment as expressed in natural writing. In the essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism,” Rueckert defines ecocriticism as ‘The application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature because ecology (as a science, as…