An Eco critical Study of the Select Fiction of Margaret Atwood and Mahasweta Devi

Abstract

The present era is an era of innovation in the field of art and literature. It has witnessed the origin of many critical theories as well as transformation from anthropocentrism to biocentrism in critical theory. At this juncture, traditional mode of literary analysis changed from world in the text into outside physical environment presented in it. Ecocriticism is environment oriented criticism, one of the most recent fields of research, to have emerged from the rapidly diversifying matrix of literary and cultural studies in the 1990s. Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship of the human and non-human throughout human cultural history and entailing critical analysis of the term humanand#8223; itself. Ecocriticism is particular amongst contemporary literary and cultural theory because of its close relationship with science of ecology. The critical study of environment or ecology can be named as Ecocriticism .It is close study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment by taking an earth-centred approach to literary studies. Ecocriticism as rethinking of Green reading cross the ethnic and cultural borders and exploring readings in relation to nature. Ecocriticism runs a whole range of definitions, the most well-known being the one Cheryl Glotfelty proposed in The Ecocriticism Reader, The Study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment (Glotfelty XVII) newlineThis thesis also discusses different subthemes of Ecocriticism like, ecology, ecofeminism, anthropocentricism, postcolonial ecocriticism, literary ecology, environmental humanities The researcher summarizes literary biography of Margaret Atwood and Mahasweta Devi and contemporary literary trends in the writers milieu . Selected works of the writers have been analysed in ecocritical perspective with keen observation of setting, style theme plot, and language implication of the texts newlineHypothesis newline1. Margaret Atwoodand#8223;s works deals with environmental insight to a large extent. newline2. Atwood speaks out against exploitation and