dc.contributor.advisor	Sarveswaran, Vidya
dc.creator.researcher	Paul, Abhra
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-06T10:42:35Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-06T10:42:35Z
dc.date.awarded	2021-07
dc.date.issued	2021-02
dc.date.registered	2015-12
dc.description.abstract	The broad area of the research relates to American literature and Ecocriticism. The current planetary ecological crises have reached a magnitude beyond human understanding, and there is an urgent need to halt this global environmental decimation by humans. Habitat fragmentation, species extinction, global warming, dumping of radioactive waste, toxic chemicals, and depletion of local ecosystems are some of the issues of immediate concern. The study concentrates on interpreting and analysing Barbara Kingsolver’s works within the ecocritical context. Barbara Kingsolver is an eminent novelist, trained biologist, and environmentalist. Close readings of her fiction and non-fiction provide an in-depth insight into the various aspects of her novels that account for her engagement with seeing the wholeness of the world. Kingsolver's works exhibit an understanding that the human and the nonhuman interact and intersect in a meaningful way. Ecocriticism tends to analyse this relationship between humans and the physical environment represented in literature. The writings of Kingsolver posit her as a versatile writer exploring issues related to persistent ecological and environmental issues. Thus, an ecocritical lens is useful in analysing the literary works of Kingsolver. The study attempts to examine her four novels, namely Animal Dreams (1990), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Flight Behaviour (2012), and four works of non-fiction, namely High Tide in Tucson (1995), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie 5 \| P a g e Griffiths Belt (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007) through an ecocritical perspective. Kingsolver, in these works, has discussed environmental awareness by depicting multiple pressing ecological issues. She informs the readers that human beings are neither dominant nor exclusive to this fragile ecosystem. This study proposes to analyse the predominant ecocritical themes in these literary pieces that emphasize the interconnectedness of all life forms. It is imperative that humans understand their relationship with other life forms on this planet, and this is often claimed as one of the important tenets of ecocriticism. The core chapters are analyses based on four specific centers of interest or perspectives. These are (i) Place: Bioregionalism and Eco-cosmopolitanism (ii) Ecofeminism: Partnership Ethics, (iii) Writing Animals: Ecocritical Animal Studies, (iv) the Anthropocene. Key Words: Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, Barbara Kingsolver, Partnership Ethics, Eco-cosmopolitanism, Ecocritical Animal Studies, Anthropocene.	en_US
dc.description.note	col. ill.; including bibliography	en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility	by Abhra Paul	en_US
dc.format.accompanyingmaterial	CD	en_US
dc.format.extent	186p.	en_US
dc.identifier.accession	TP00111
dc.identifier.citation	Paul, Abhra. (2021). Writing the Earth: An Ecocritical Reading of the Selected Works of Barbara Kingsolver (Doctor's thesis). Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://ir.iitj.ac.in/handle/123456789/121
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
dc.publisher.department	Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.publisher.place	Jodhpur
dc.rights.holder	IIT Jodhpur
dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-SA
dc.subject.ddc	Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	Ecocriticism	en_US
dc.subject.ddc	Barbara Kingsolver	en_US
dc.title	Writing the Earth: An Ecocritical Reading of the Selected Works of Barbara Kingsolver.	en_US
dc.type	Thesis

Writing the Earth: An Ecocritical Reading of the Selected Works of Barbara Kingsolver.

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