Sanday Reading :- Ecocriticism

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                                 Here I am write about my understanding on response to the guest lecture session by Devang Nanavati. This is blog is related to post colonial studies. This is my academic task given by Dilip barad sir from Department of English Bhavnagar University. Devang Nanavati give the some thoughts on eco criticism. Here the video recording of the live session.

 Ecocriticism

                       " Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment". Post Colonial ecocriticism stems from the realization that western centrism and anthropocentrism consolidate one another. It draws attention to the principles of social ecology and the question of environmental justice, expressing concern about the fact that subaltern humans are denied access to the resources of the land they inhabit and emphasising the sustainability of their cultural practices.

                           Ecocriticism was a term coind in the late 1970s by combining " criticism" with a shortened from of ' ecology', The science that investigates the interrelation of all forms of plant and animal life which each other and with their physical habitats.

                       Ecocritical post-colonial study is a newly emerged field in literary criticism. The theory combines the study of post-colonial environment in literary work and reveals a relationship between literature and the environment. Before the word ‘Ecocriticism’ was coined in the world of literature, from the beginning, writers were exclusively engaged presenting nature as source of inspiration and a privilege to evolve their ideas and pen them down.  

             With the introduction of the term Ecocriticism in literary criticism by the Association of the Study of Literature and Environment in 1993, scholars approached the analysis of texts to highlight environmental concerns and explore the roles of literature to bring awareness to society.  

                 Post-colonialism, on the other hand, as a response to colonization, studies the cultural and economic exploitation of the colonized/marginalized-- the natives and their land. As one can see the split between the two schools of thought-- nature versus culture--has been a trend for more than a decade. This split of thought has obliterated the fact that the environment is an integration of nature and culture, humans and nonhumans, animate and inanimate.