Nowadays, ecofeminism occupies a prominent place in the realm of literary scholarship. In the light of the growing ecological awareness, a large number of Indian women have courageously stood up for and boldly written about the burning environmental issues and problems of our time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni belongs to the same league of writers. The passion and zeal with which she intersperses her imaginative world with ecological wisdom give her fiction a novel vantage point to unfold newer avenues for communing with nature in a more syncretic and morally responsible manner. Divakaruni writes with a profound belief in the intrinsic worth of all beings in the web of life which makes her fiction a remarkably fecund tool for steering the reader towards a deeper understanding of environmental justice. This essay attempts to exhibit the significant contribution of Divakaruni’s fiction in putting forth a non-anthropocentric paradigm for subverting the impending ecological apocalypse. The novels selected for the study, namely The Mistress of Spices (1997), The Palace of Illusions (2008), One Amazing Thing (2009), and The Forest of Enchantments (2019) embody Divakaruni’s emancipatory vision and engage with a range of critical perspectives through the conceptual tool of ecofeminism.

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Interface of Gender and Nature: Celebrating Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Ecofeminist Ardour

  • Shivangi

摘要

Nowadays, ecofeminism occupies a prominent place in the realm of literary scholarship. In the light of the growing ecological awareness, a large number of Indian women have courageously stood up for and boldly written about the burning environmental issues and problems of our time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni belongs to the same league of writers. The passion and zeal with which she intersperses her imaginative world with ecological wisdom give her fiction a novel vantage point to unfold newer avenues for communing with nature in a more syncretic and morally responsible manner. Divakaruni writes with a profound belief in the intrinsic worth of all beings in the web of life which makes her fiction a remarkably fecund tool for steering the reader towards a deeper understanding of environmental justice. This essay attempts to exhibit the significant contribution of Divakaruni’s fiction in putting forth a non-anthropocentric paradigm for subverting the impending ecological apocalypse. The novels selected for the study, namely The Mistress of Spices (1997), The Palace of Illusions (2008), One Amazing Thing (2009), and The Forest of Enchantments (2019) embody Divakaruni’s emancipatory vision and engage with a range of critical perspectives through the conceptual tool of ecofeminism.