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Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Nicole Anae and Douglas A. Vakoch

Part 1. Ecofeminist Literature across India
Chapter 1. Reading Ecofeminist Approaches: Postcolonial Women's Writing in Hindi Literature
Prachi Priyanka
Chapter 2. Ecofeminist Consciousness in Select Folktales of the Dungri Garasiya Bhils
Pronami Bhattacharyya
Chapter 3. Spiritual Ecology: An Ecofeminist Study of the Jhumur Songs of Tribal Bengal
Anindita Chatterjee

Part 2. North East Indian Perspectives
Chapter 4. Ecofeminism in Assamese Literature
Nibedita Mukherjee
Chapter 5. Violence in the Literature of North East India: An Ecofeminist Perspective
Shibani Phukan and Triveni Goswami Vernal
Chapter 6. Indigenous Ecofeminism and Contemporary North East Indian Literature: Lessons in Eco-Swaraj
Panchali Bhattacharya
Chapter 7. Ecofeminism and Bodo Folktales and Folksongs
Esther Daimari and Ivy Daimary
Chapter 8. Women and Natural Resource Management in Naga Folktales and Peoplestories: Situating Easterine Kire's Fiction
Nilanjana Chatterjee

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Published Aug 08 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9781666908718
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 237 x 158 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Douglas A. Vakoch

Anthology Editor

Nicole Anae

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Nicole Anae

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Esther Daimari

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Ivy Daimari

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Nagendra Kumar

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Shalini M

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Shibani Phukan

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Meghna Prabir

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Prachi Priyanka

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Anik Sarkar

Anik Sarkar is Assistant Professor of English at S…

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Jayjit Sarkar

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Rahul V

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