ECOCRITICAL READINGS IN SELECT CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION

Abstract

This study basically highlights Ecocritical Readings in Select Contemporary Indian English Fiction and proposes to study the emergence of Ecocriticism in India, and its significance in Indian English fiction. It analyzes the contributions of writers and theoreticians who have extensively dealt with this literary theory (Ecocriticism). Their different points of view will be taken into account and incorporated into the project. It shall also make an attempt to explore how the various discourses such as culture, gender and environment, which are implicit in the very fabric of the novels that have been chosen for the detailed study in this project.