Eco-Critical Approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya

Abstract

This paper deals with the eco-critical approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya in their select novels. The focus is on finding the approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya towards continuous devastation of the natural atmosphere and deterioration of the relationship between man and nature. Both the writers are called great environmentalists who criticize the inhuman behaviour and ill-treatment of the human beings towards the aspects of nature. The healthy atmosphere of the universe has been getting destroyed since long back by different illogical and unethical attitude of the people towards one another and towards the nature. Both the writers have highlighted in their novels the imperialistic tendency of the colonizers and growing modernization which devastated the healthy environment and broke the amicable relationship between man and nature. This paper studies the Sea of Poppies (2008) of Amitav Ghosh and The Coffer Dams (1969) of Kamala Markandaya. An analytical method is used to go through the study.