• ISBN13: 9788126932856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 28, 2022
• Pages: 244
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 380 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

At a time when literary criticism is trying to go green, this anthology joins the distinguished list of anthologies published earlier and would serve not only to complement but also to extend the debate and discussion on literature, culture, and ecology. The twelve essays included in this volume try to delve into the ecology, literature, and culture relationship and their representation from a wide variety of positions, thereby invoking a plurality of many different voices—something that is central to ecocritical consciousness.

Animesh Roy, M.A., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Xavier’s College, Simdega (affiliated to Ranchi University), in Jharkhand, India. He has also taught in colleges under The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, and Netaji Subhas Open University in West Bengal. His areas of research interest include environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, medical humanities, indigenous studies, gender studies, communication studies, and the North-South discourses. His most recent publication is Provincializing Ecocriticism: Postcolonial Ecocritical Thoughts and Environmental-Historical Difference (Lexington Books, 2021). His forthcoming publications both on folklore and desert literature are to be published by Routledge, USA (2022), and another on ethnomedicine by Bloomsbury, USA (2022).

• Foreword
• Preface.
• Acknowledgements
• List of Table
• List of Figure
• Introduction
• The Greening of Literature and Culture: Trajectories and Thoughts
• Animesh Roy
• List of Contributors
• 1. Urbanity and Transformation of Island Life: Jail, Jungle, and the Jarawa in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s The Last Wave: An Island Novel
• Asis De and Nirmalendu Maiti
• 2. Latitudes of Longing: An Ecocritical Exploration of Our Geopolitics
• Samata Biswas and Nirajana Chakraborty
• 3. Nature as the Grand Alternative: An Ecological Enquiry into An Essay on Man
• Papia Mitra
• 4. ‘Kāda ar Bāda’
• Ecotone, Edge Effect, and Cultural Confluence in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
• Maitrayee Misra
• 5. Tracing the Devi: Of Forests, Fields, and the Rivers of India in Sita’s Ramayana
• Supriya Banerjee
• 6. The Silenced Untouchable and His Slandered Environment
• Diana Joe
• 7. Anthropocentric Limits in Ecological Considerations: Towards a Green Orientation
• Gagana Bihari Purohit
• 8. Learning from the Landscapes: On the Trail of the Sirupanan
• V. Arivudai Nambi and P. Ponnivalavan
• 9. Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha
• A Saga of Ecological Silence
• Bosudha Bandyopadhyay
• 10. Celebrating Women Body as a Subject, a Source of Resilience and Peace in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian: An Eco-feminist Discourse
• Prasenjit Panda
• 11. Mind Your Baggage: The Hainish Universe as Counter-myth
• Sarban Bandyopadhyay
• 12. A Different Hunt: Dispossession of the Indigenous Human and Animal Forest Communities in Jim Corbett’s Tiger Hunts and Their Reclamation in Buddhadeb Guha’s Shikar Stories of Rhiju Da Isha Biswas
• Bibliography
• Index