Does the Earth Belong to Us, or Do We Belong to the Earth?  : A Note on Ecocriticism

Tejaswini Behera; Prajna Panigrahi

doi:10.53724/jmsg/v4n3.02

Authors

Tejaswini Behera M.A., M.Phil. Lecturer in English Bhuban Women’s College, Dhenkanal, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0565-5869
Prajna Panigrahi Senior Lecture In English, DDCE, Utkal University Vani Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisa, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53724/jmsg/v4n3.02

Keywords:

Ecocriticism, nature, deforestation, Issues of belonging, Conflict between machines and man

Abstract

Ecocriticism aims to bring a transformation of literary studies by linking literary criticism and theory with ecological issues on a wide scale giving a call to literature to connect to the issues of today’s environmental crisis, deforestation, and the depletion of natural resources because of man’s overriding greed for material possession and intense dislike for nature. In other words, ecocriticism is directly concerned with both nature and the environment.

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