An Explication of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Anuradha Roy’s An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Abstract

Objective: Climate change is an alarming concept prevailing as a threat to human existence. The paper aims to emphasise on climate change, a concern for environment portrayed in Anuradha Roy’s novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008). Extending this hypothesis, the paper aims to scrutinize the changes happening in the climate and environment in the novel during the partition period in India. Method: The researchers have used qualitative research and to bring this research with a descriptive approach. However, the researcher lays out the study under the main theory of ecocriticism and narrows it down to the specific concept of ‘Climate change’. Result: The novel An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008) is set on the outskirts of West Bengal, which is located in the northern part of India. A widower character in the novel is finding it difficult to get attached to his motherless daughter who is quite close to an orphan boy named Mukunda, adopted by the family. The characters in the novel live in tune with nature and find certain difficulties to continue their lifestyle because of climate change. Conclusion: In the explication on the concept of ‘climate change’ the researcher examines the relevant concepts like anthropocentric and anthropogenic which might be the cause of climate change. The main scope of this paper is to prioritize the concept of climate change for sustaining nature.