Eco-Critical Perspective in the novel of Indira Goswami and Mamang Dai

Abstract: This research paper examines a relative eco-critical study of selected works by Indira Goswami and Mamang Dai, two prominent authors from Northeast India. Both writers have shown the sense of significance of the nature in the human’s life and history. North-East India is abundantly bestowed with forest, animals, river, mountain and beautiful nature. This paper explores Indira Goswami’s and Mamang Dai’s work through eco critical lenses. Indira Goswami’s novel The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker and The Man from Chinnamasta explores the ongoing stress between human prevalence and the ecological world through patriarchal customs and rituals of sacrificing animals. Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and The Black Hill provides an account of rivers, forest, mountains and nature are indivisible parts in everyday life, Moreover, it reflects the predicament and inconsistency of modern society’s commitment with environmental concerns. The paper concludes that both authors are concern about ‘nature’ and ‘human life.’ Mamang Dai is more connected with the Adi community. She emphasizes the importance of old culture, their own tribal language which becomes endanger in this modern world, their folk, stories, and their existence. On the other side, Indira Goswami’s work for the very human rights, liberty, peace, survival, women’s identity, society and so on, all embracing both writers literary work reveals human-nature relationship and their deep connection with culture and tradition.