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- Title
Nature at Cross-roads: An Ecocritical Analysis of Sundara Ramaswamy's Tamarind History.
- Authors
Saritha, R.
- Abstract
Ecocriticism is the contemporary theory which explains the affiliation between literature and the earth. Ecocritical theory explains the significance of the natural world and it centers on the principal of relating physical environment with the textual writing. This environmental outlook is employed to explain the natural milieu and its decline in Sundara Ramaswamy's Tamarind History translated in English by Blake Wentworth. This Tamil novel illustrates the events that revolve around a tamarind tree of a small town which stands for generations and character's associated with it. The town's wilderness and its pasts are admired by an old wanderer and he transmits it to the younger generation through stories. The novelist in the fiction depicts the progress which human beings bring forth to improve the town. However, commercial development takes a toll on the pristine nature and the characters in the novel reflect on the loss of the wilderness. Sundara Ramaswamy brings out changing human ways impacting environment. Ecocritical reading of the novel drives home the point of destruction of natural atmosphere of the town with rise in modern developmental progress.
- Subjects
ECOCRITICISM; NOVELISTS; WILDERNESS areas; WILD &; scenic rivers; WILDERNESS areas in art
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 8, p229
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article