The ability of Eco-Criticism to evaluate Indigenous literature

<p>One of the tremendous cultural anxieties of<br>the twenty-first century is how to preserve<br>Nature and prevent anthropogenic<br>environmental catastrophes. Jelica Tošić<br>argues that the global anxiety attached to the<br>climate crisis and environmental crisis at this<br>historical juncture lies behind the emergence<br>of new disciplines of academic study, such<br>as eco-criticism, whose aim is to sensitize<br>the majority towards ecological degradation<br>and to produce new perspectives of Nature:<br>"man's fear of his own extinction has moved<br>the borders of disinterested academism"<br>(Tošić).</p>