The Green-consciousness and Cataclysmic Outcomes in the Selected Works of Na D'Souza, Mahasweta Devi and Akkineni Kutumbarao: A Study in Ecocriticism

Literature and ecology have become interdisciplinary subjects because of the intensifying global changes in the environmental sphere therefore feisty writers have opened up to expose the human folly and his uroboric attitude. Subsequently, contemporary creative writing has not been limited to providing aesthetic satisfaction but it has become Pandora’s chest for many ecological illustrations and concerns as well. The dynamism of green consciousness and the synchronization of the environmental state of affairs are more communicative and unrestrained in contemporary literature. It has been taking up many man-made calamities and exertions in an admonishing way. Though the ecological concerns have been exhibited by intellectuals time and again through their writings after the publication of ‘The Ecocriticism Reader’ in 1996 by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, the idea gathers special shape, attention and moss. Eventually, a new line of thought evolved as Ecocriticism; the term Ecocriticism was first coined by William Rueckert in his essay, ‘Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism’ in 1978. Ecocriticism being an interdisciplinary study covers the inter-relationship between nature and man. We can take the examples of the eco-critical texts of indigenous writings like R.K Narayan’s Malgudi Days, Kamala Markandaya‘s Nectar in the Sieve, Ruskin Bond’s No Room for Leopard and The Cherry Tree, Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies and Hungry Tides, Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain for better insight on the development and history of Eco-Literature in Indian soil.