Published Online:June 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
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Author Name:Sonalika Chaturvedi and Renu Bhadola Dangwal
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:11
The paper examines how Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People register the sense of vulnerability and precarity of ecocatastrophic experiences and place these experiences in the collective memory of people. The paper explores the interrelation between detrimental human actions and their impact on both human and nonhuman lives and the dimensions which these narratives construct, adapt, and respond to. The paper discusses the ways in which the authors imagine the calamity, its representation, and narration, portraying the slow, unnoticed, unmeasured, and cumulative disaster. It shows how literary texts, in their cultural bearing, enable the reader to realize that human activity is the common link between environmental disasters
We live in a world where everything is interconnected, bearing consequences on one another. Our attitude towards the environment determines the outcome of our choices, and often these choices result in a disaster of some kind. Even after the hue and cry for over generations on environmental crises by scientific researchers, the severity of perennial disastrous events has continuously left people vulnerable, disrupting the regular functioning of society. In an era of techno-scientific advancement, we still have our vulnerabilities delimiting our human capabilities. This fact explains the dialectical relationship between the environment and our cultural responses and has been testified in the recent ecological crisis of Covid-19 pandemic.