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UNEARTHING ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN AMITAV GHOSH'S NOVELS

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Sarika Y. Dive1* , Dr.Varsha Vaidya
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5a.053

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The concern for ecology and the threat that overt exploitation and continuous misuse of nature and natural resources poses on humanity has only recently grabbed the attention of the writers, giving emergence to a new literary movement, namely Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism encourages comprehending the complicacies of man-nature relation as presented in literature. The raising environmental issues and its affect give rise to a significant danger to the people and its environment. The present paper purports to establish the ecological perception regarding the Sundarbans, introduced by the eminent writer, Amitav Ghosh in his sixthnovel, The Hungry Tide, chiefly as it presents a matter-of-fact delineation of nature, its privileges and wondersas well as adversities. The concern for our co-survival with environment is given expression in this novel where almost all characters foster their own diverging perspectives concerning their natural surroundings. Thestoryline of the novel is organized with nature’s turns, dividing the book logically into two segments: The Ebband The Flood. Knitted complicatedly into a plot that uses Nature as its basis for advancement

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