Eco-Apocalypse and Literary Fiction: Critical Readings of Aldous Huxley, J.G. Ballard and Amitav Ghosh
Auteur: Dr. Anisha
Nombre de pages: 157 pages
ISBN: 9798898604424
Edition: Shineeks Publishers
Date de publication: Shineeks Publishers
Description: The intent behind writing this book is to create an awareness about the issue of eco-apocalypse, which has become the defining feature of our age, fuelled by various factors like climate change, resource depletion, pollution, and biodiversity loss. It also assesses the impact of literary scholarship (eco-apocalyptic literature) and ecological thought in cogitating an eco-centric way of being and how it provides a way for a more comprehensive understanding of the precarity of the natural environment and the nature of the impact of human activities on it. It is a kind of environmental study that analyses the environmentally critical realities in the selected texts of Aldous Huxley, J.G. Ballard, and Amitav Ghosh, in the light of the loss of humans’ ethical sense towards nature, which enforces the human community to rethink their vain yearnings, their responsibility towards the ecological world, and reformulate their ideology to open up pathways for ecological sustainability. It is an attempt to explore the ecological vision of three great writers and how their works emphasise a much-needed shift from a comfortable apathy to deep empathy on the part of human beings towards nature.This book also explains the concept of ecoprecarity, which finds an expression in the post-apocalyptic landscapes of the selected texts. An attempt has been made to answer how nature can be the best escape and harbor for human beings, and also how nature reacts to its violation. It also makes a comparative study of Western (British) and Indian post-apocalyptic novels. The main motive of this study is to contribute towards the creation of an awareness, introspection and even some action on the part of human beings in view of their destructive activities against nature. It is an attempt to sensitize people towards the beautiful bond between humanity and nature that can still be revived with a gesture of love and respect. The purpose is to make humans realize that there is still a hope of survival amidst this scenario of unpredictability, which totally depends upon our sustainable efforts.