This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts. By analysing writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Amitav Ghosh, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hannah Arendt, and Lawrence Buell, it discusses themes like oriental representations of ecological consciousness; environmental evocations; misogyny and its postmodern creations; tracing nature’s footprints in English literature; statelessness and consequent environmental refugees; ecocriticism and comics; and, absolute trust in the goodness of the earth.
The volume argues that within the ambit of debates between ecological threats and socio-economic concerns, culture plays a vital role particularly in relation to parameters such as identity and engagement, memory and projection, gender and generations, inquiry and learning, wellbeing and health.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, English literature, social anthropology, gender studies, sustainable development, environmental studies, ecological studies, development studies, and post-colonial studies.
Author(s): Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjee, Soumitra Roy
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Of Anthropocene: Far End of the Eco-critical Trajectory
Part I Through Various Lenses: Theorizing Ecology
Chapter 1 Tagore’s Red Oleanders: Tracing an Indian Root of Socialist Ecofeminist Drama
Chapter 2 Dialectics of Nature and Culture
Chapter 3 Ecocriticism and Comics
Chapter 4 Dialectics of Environment through the Prism of Fiction: An Overview of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Chapter 5 From Ecocriticism to Omninaturalism: The Green Consciousness and Intercorporeality
Chapter 6 Exploring Eco-criticism and Eco-feminism: A Re-reading of Wide Sargasso Sea
Chapter 7 Studying ‘Cli-fi’: Thinking about the ‘Unthinkable’
Part II Ecology and Literary Representation
Chapter 8 Gerard Manley Hopkins – A Priest of Ecology
Chapter 9 Statelessness, Environmental Refugee, and ‘The Law of Humanity’: Reading Hannah Arendt, Lawrence Buell, and Amitav Ghosh Together
Chapter 10 The Rhetoric of Space: Space and Human Behaviour in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 11 Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: An Ecocritical/Ecofeminist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Chapter 12 Misogyny and Its Postmodern Creation: A Material Ecofeminist Reading of Harold Pinter’s Select Women Characters
Chapter 13 The Unnatural Nature: Edgar Allan Poe and Eco-horror
Part III Development and Sustainability
Chapter 14 Development and Sustainability: Understanding the Duality of Expectations through a Study of Literature
Chapter 15 Sustainable Development and Ecological Perspectives: Improvement in Water and Sanitation
Chapter 16 Analysis of Ambient Air Quality of Asansol Subdivision and Its Sustainable Solution
Chapter 17 Tracing Nature’s Footprints in English Literature: An Ecocritical Perspective
