Eco-feministic perspective of Kamala Markandaya in the Novel The Coffer Dams

This paper deals with the Eco-feministic views of Kamala Markandaya that she has expressed in her novels, which make her in the real sense a true Eco-feminist. The novel entitled The Coffer Dams (1969) is studied in this paper to find out her eco-feministic outlook. The focus is on comparing the qualities of the nature with the qualities of the women, the characters of Kamala Markandaya as true lovers and protectors of nature. It has been found that the chief character of this novel named Helen loves, respects, protects the nature and tries to consolidate her relationship with the animals, birds, flora and fauna and even she toils for making the people aware particularly her husband named Clinton the indispensability of the affectionate relationship of the man with nature. The novel unveils the men’s outlook towards the woman and the nature, their tendency of showing dominance over woman and the nature and how the woman is exploited at their hands and the nature is getting destructed by them. An analytical method is used to study the eco-feministic perspective of Kamala Markandaya in this novel

Eco-Critical Approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya

This paper deals with the eco-critical approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya in their select novels. The focus is on finding the approach of Amitav Ghosh and Kamala Markandaya towards continuous devastation of the natural atmosphere and deterioration of the relationship between man and nature. Both the writers are called great environmentalists who criticize the inhuman behaviour and ill-treatment of the human beings towards the aspects of nature. The healthy atmosphere of the universe has been getting destroyed since long back by different illogical and unethical attitude of the people towards one another and towards the nature. Both the writers have highlighted in their novels the imperialistic tendency of the colonizers and growing modernization which devastated the healthy environment and broke the amicable relationship between man and nature. This paper studies the Sea of Poppies (2008) of Amitav Ghosh and The Coffer Dams (1969) of Kamala Markandaya. An analytical method is used to go through the study