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Of Ecocriticism In God Of Small Things By Arundhati Roy

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There has been an increased number of literary responses to the ecological crisis in the last two decades. Compelled by the idea of saving the environment a number of fiction writers portray environmental concerns as the fundamental aims of their literary texts. However, this study is invested in understanding how contemporary (non-Western/non European) fiction writers represent their environmental concerns in their fiction.This paper explores the role of environmental activism in The God of Small Things ( 1997 ) written by a South Asian novelist, Arundhati Roy. In this novel Roy examines issues of environmental degradation and condemns the western ideologies of development.
Key Words: environment,development ,degradation,west
From prehistory, literature has been used for the representation of physical environment and human-environment relationship. Literature and environment studies—generally called “Ecocriticism” focuses on the environmental aspects of literature. The collaborative enquiry of literature and environmentbegins from the conviction that creative writing by virtue of its eloquence and expressiveness , narrative , and quality of images can convincingly help to discern the environmental complications prominent in the present-day world. …show more content…

In her novel she emphasizes that all developments of science, technology and commerce in the name of economic and technological uplift are mainly anthropocentric (human created) and definitely fail to take care of our natural environment. She calls attention to the disastrous effects of unchecked economic development to the respective environments in The God of Small Things. For her development is a disguised form of colonialism/neocolonialism serving the economic and political interests of the

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