• ISBN13: 9788126936151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 27, 2023
• Pages: 318
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 478 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Revisiting Ecocriticism: Traditional, Postcolonial and Spiritual Perspectives studies the representation of environmental issues in literature and culture, with an exemplary foreword by Prof. Scott Slovic. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of environmental literary studies by foregrounding significant literary texts from different parts of the globe and gives a detailed critical appraisal of specific texts, thus making it easier for the readers to assimilate and understand the relevant topics. Most anthologies of environmental literary studies limit themselves to the exploration of particular issues. This book, however, is a one-of-its-kind Indian edition with such an exhaustive study. Twenty- two highly enriched and scholarly articles by well-known academics and researchers from different educational institutions, written from diverse points of view, is an excellent compendium for students and researchers pursuing their studies on Dalit Ecology, Deep Ecology, Ecocriticism, Bastu Ritual and Ecological Symmetry, Geocentrism, Eco-Spirituality, Ecofeminism, Ecoterrorism, Posthumanism and Ecotherapy. The structure of the book has a broad scope of research on literature and the environment. It has been carefully designed to initiate students into the field of environmental literature and make them aware of the multi-dimensional aspects of ecological subjectivity.

Dr. Nikhilesh Dhar is an Assistant Professor of English at Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal. He is a member of the editorial board of Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies and a reviewer for UGC-listed journals. He has authored the book Portrayal of Women in Keats: A Brief Study. His research interests include American Literature, South Asian Literature, Dalit Literature, Partition Literature, Diaspora Studies, Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism and Posthumanism. He is a Ph.D. Research Supervisor at the Department of English, Bankura University.

Bapin Mallick is Assistant Professor of English at Dr B.R. Ambedkar College, Nadia, West Bengal. He is the managing editor of Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. His areas of interest are Poststructuralism, Ecocriticism and Posthumanism. He has several research papers and articles published in various literary journals and anthologies to his credit. He is presently a Ph.D. research scholar at the Department of English, Bankura University, Bankura.

• Foreword
• Introduction
• List of Contributors
• 1. Anthropocene: Contextualising a New Indian Response to Climate Change
• Angshuman Kar
• 2. Empire, Nature and the Subjects: A Critical Reading of Kipling’s Select Texts
• Beetoshok Singha
• 3. Displacement of a Dalit Ecology: An Ecocritical Discourse
• Boudhayan Biswas
• 4. ‘Physicality’ of a Different kind: A Green Reading of the Poetry of Kamala Das
• Debdas Roy
• 5. Re-Reading Amitav Ghosh Through a De-Westernized Lens: An Ecocritical Exploration of The Hungry Tide
• Dipanjoy Mukherjee
• 6. Animism and Ecological Symmetry: A Theoretical Approach to Bastu Ritual
• Jyoti Biswas
• 7. Echoing Eco-Spiritual Values for a New World: An Inter-reading of Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha
• Murali Sivaramakrishnan
• 8. Othering Nature and Women: An Ecofeminist Reading of Select Poems of Marvell
• Narugopal Mukherjee
• 9. Eco-consciousness in Select Indian English Poetry: Re-Reading A.K. Ramanujan, K.N. Daruwalla and Gieve Patel
• Nikhilesh Dhar
• 10. Speciesism and Beyond: Re-reading Kalidasa’s Abhijñānaśākuntalam from Deep Ecological Perspective
• Nikhilesh Dhar and Bapin Mallick
• 11. Representation of Resistance and Identity Crisis in The Adivasi will not Dance: An Ecocritical Reading
• Palash Biswas
• 12. Tracing the Silent Shift to Urbanisation: An Ecocritical re-reading of Select Partition Memoirs from Bengal
• Pallab Das
• 13. Veganism as a Marker of Interspecies Amity in the Posthumanist Anthropozoic Era
• Rima Ghosh
• 14. Capitalism, Urbanization, and ‘the Civilization of the Demons’: A Reading of Select Environmental Writings of Rabindranath Tagore
• Samit Kumar Maiti
• 15. “There is a Love Greater Than All You Know”: An Ecotherapeutic Study of Kamala Das’s “Anamalai Poems”
• Santanu Saha
• 16. Ecophobia: The Poetic Vision of W.B. Yeats
• Shruti Das
• 17. Environmental Philosophy and Preservation of Nature: Deep Ecological Analysis on Select Bengali Dalit Poetry
• Sibasis Jana
• 18. Eco-consciousness as a Tool of Building National Culture in David Malouf’s Rembering Babylon
• Sourav Banerjee
• 19. The Sentient Transient: Eco-Transdisciplinarity in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 Cinematic Adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898)
• Subhadeep Paul
• 20. Tracing the Paradigm Shift: Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and the Global Warming Criticism
• Subrata Sahoo
• 21. Environmental Consciousness in Poetry from Nagaland
• Susanta Kumar Bardhan and Raj Raj Mukhopadhyay
• 22. Fostering Empathic Relationality: Ecological Concerns in Recent Animated Films
• Suvapriya Chatterjee
• Index