Description
Book SynopsisFollowing Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Nicole Anae and Douglas A. Vakoch
Part 1. Ecofeminist Literature across India
Chapter 1. Reading Ecofeminist Approaches: Postcolonial Women’s Writing in Hindi Literature
Prachi Priyanka
Chapter 2. Ecofeminist Consciousness in Select Folktales of the Dungri Garasiya Bhils
Pronami Bhattacharyya
Chapter 3. Spiritual Ecology: An Ecofeminist Study of the Jhumur Songs of Tribal Bengal
Anindita Chatterjee
Part 2. North East Indian Perspectives
Chapter 4. Ecofeminism in Assamese Literature
Nibedita Mukherjee
Chapter 5. Violence in the Literature of North East India: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Shibani Phukan and Triveni Goswami Vernal
Chapter 6. Indigenous Ecofeminism and Contemporary North East Indian Literature: Lessons in Eco-Swaraj
Panchali Bhattacharya
Chapter 7. Ecofeminism and Bodo Folktales and Folksongs
Esther Daimari and Ivy Daimary
Chapter 8. Women and Natural Resource Management in Naga Folktales and Peoplestories: Situating Easterine Kire’s Fiction
Nilanjana Chatterjee
Part 3. South Indian Perspectives
Chapter 9. Tinai and Representations of Nature and Women in Tamil Cankam Literature
N Depak Saravanan and A. Edwin Jeevaraj
Chapter 10. Ecofeminism and Its Impasses: Women Writing Nature in Malayalam Literature
Shalini M
Chapter 11. Postcolonial Women’s Writing in Malayalam Literature and Ecofeminism
Anupama Nayar CV
Chapter 12. Magic, Environment, and Malayalam Literature: Narrating the Slow Death of Aathi and Kasargod
Rahul V and Nagendra Kumar
Part 4. Intersectionality, Queerness, and Surveillance
Chapter 13. The Intersectional Spectrum and the Critical Legacy of the Novelists of the Indian Green
Ananya Chatterjee and Debajyoti Sarkar
Chapter 14. Conceptualizing a Queer Ecopoetics: The Politics of Intersectionality in the Postcolonial Era
Meghna Prabir and Shreyashi Sarkar
Chapter 15. Ecofeminism in Two Indian Dystopian Novels
Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar
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