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The Era of Environmental Derangement: Witnessing Climate Crisis in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Drawing on Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019) together with his nonfictional The Great Derangement (2016), the article strives to present that while advancing endless desires, human-centric culture and the idea of ‘good life’ drive climate change and environmental deterioration. It seeks to enumerate the devastating consequences of changing climatic conditions and degenerating ecosystems and their cumulative impacts on the humankind and non-human world. It aims to locate how human life at the margins has been affected by these cataclysmic consequences through analysing Ghosh’s Gun Island. It attempts to show that human interventions had significantly fuelled the global climate crisis in the seventeenth century, decoding the myth of Bonduki Sadagar that Ghosh identifies in Gun Island.

Source: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.29

Authors: Nupur Pancholi, Sanjit Kumar Mishra

Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Language: English

Topic: Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $150