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This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.
List of contents
List of Figures. Preface, Acknowledgements. Introduction - Of Anthropocene: Far End of the Eco-critical Trajectory. Part I. Through Various Lenses: Theorizing Ecology. 1. Tagore's Red Oleanders: Tracing a Root of Socialist Eco-feminism. 2. Dialectics of Nature and Culture.
3. Ecocriticism and Comics. 4. Dialectics of Environment through the Prism of Fiction: An Overview of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. 5. From Ecocriticism to Omninaturalism: The Green Consciousness and Intercorporeality.
6. Exploring Eco-Criticism and Eco-Feminism A Re-reading of Wide Sargasso Sea. 7. Studying ‘Cli-fi’: Thinking about the ‘Unthinkable’. Part II. Ecology and Literary Representation. 8. Gerard Manley Hopkins—A Priest of Ecology. 9. Statelessness, Environmental Refugee and ‘The Law of Humanity’: Reading Hannah Arendt, Lawrence Buell and Amitav Ghosh together. 10. The Rhetoric of Space: Space and Human Behaviour in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and The Scarlet Letter. 11. Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: An Ecocritical/Ecofeminist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple. 12. Misogyny and Its Postmodern Creation: A Material Eco-feminist Reading of Harold Pinter's Select Female Characters. 13. The Unnatural Nature: Edgar Allan Poe and Eco-horror. Part III. Development and Sustainability. 14. Development and Sustainability: Understanding the Duality of Expectations through a Study of Literature. 15. Sustainable Development and Ecological Perspectives: Improvement in Water and Sanitation. 16. Analysis of Ambient Air Quality of Asansol Sub-division and It’s Sustainable Solution. 17. Tracing Nature’s Footprints in English Literature: An Ecocritical Perspective.
About the author
Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjee is Associate Professor of English in the Postgraduate Department of English at Trivenidevi Bhalotia College, Raniganj, West Bengal, India. An alumnus of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, her PhD thesis was on Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet. Her areas of interest include American literature, post-fifties British literature, Postcolonial Studies, Partition literature, Ecocriticism and Gender Studies. She has co-edited The American Novel from Hawthorne to Heller: Cultural Contexts and Critical Perspectives (2019). She is Associate Editor of Literary Oracle, journal of the Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha.
Soumitra Roy is Associate Professor of English at Kazi Nazrul Islam Mahavidyalaya, Asansol, West Bengal, India, and has a teaching experience of over 21 years. He is an alumnus of Burdwan University, West Bengal. His areas of interest include postcolonial studies, film studies, and sports literature. His publications include “Consciousness of a Modern Indian Nation: Analysing Gender Violence from New Delhi to Kamduni”. He is also a reviewer of Literary Oracle.
Summary
This book examines the issues of ecological crisis and sustainable development through critical reading of literary texts.
