EVALUATION OF ECOCRITICAL WRITING IN THE HUNGRY TIDE

Abstract

Eco-criticism is a relatively new critical approach that has emerged alongside the growing literary and critical interest in environmental issues and green politics. Several authors have surfaced in the current century to highlight the importance of environmental issues and their deep link they have to literature. Amitav Ghosh is an example of such a writer. A country like India, with ecosystems spanning from the snowy Himalayas in the north to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean in the south and from the swampy Sunderbans in the east to the arid desert in the west, highlights the importance of the relationship between nature and society. Furthermore, human culture is linked to and affected by the environment. The purpose of this paper is to examine Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide from an ecocritical standpoint in an effort to better understand the novel.