Reflections on Ecotextuality from India: Greening Literature Anew [1 ed.] 1527504468, 9781527504462

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Reflections on Ecotextuality from India

Reflections on Ecotextuality from India: Greening Literature Anew Edited by

Jibu Mathew George and Mathew John Kokkatt

Reflections on Ecotextuality from India: Greening Literature Anew Edited by Jibu Mathew George and Mathew John Kokkatt This book first published 2023 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2023 by Jibu Mathew George, Mathew John Kokkatt and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-5275-0446-8 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-0446-2

For all those who had to so struggle for their survival that they forgot to regret the exploitation of nature that it involved and To the future generations for whom the earth might be a lost paradise

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................. ix PREFACE ...................................................................................................... x Siby James, Jibu Mathew George, and Mathew John Kokkatt NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ......................................................................... xx CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................... 1 WANDERING IN NATURE WITH THE INNER SELF: THE SUBJECT EXPERIENCING THE OBJECT Mathew John Kokkatt CHAPTER 2 ................................................................................................. 18 RELIGION AND DIVINE MUSIC IN NATURE, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EPHREM THE POET Thomas Koonammakkal CHAPTER 3 ................................................................................................. 27 THE MOTHER EARTH: IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE Linta Baby CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................. 37 THE SELVING AND ‘UNSELVING’ OF MOTHER NATURE: THE ECOTHEOLOGY OF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS AS EXPRESSED IN SELECTED POEMS Gigy Joseph CHAPTER 5 ................................................................................................. 50 ECO-EGO AND GREEN BEHAVIOUR: AN ECOLOGICAL READING OF THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Sonia Sebastian CHAPTER 6 ................................................................................................. 58 DATTA, DAYADHVAM, DAMYATA: THE SUCCINCT IMPORT OF “EARTH SONG” Rahul Narayanan

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CHAPTER 7 ................................................................................................. 66 MADDADDAM: READING MARGARET ATWOOD’S TRILOGY AS ANTHROPOCENE NARRATIVE Sangeetha Puthiyedath CHAPTER 8 ................................................................................................. 78 ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN SANSKRIT CLASSICS C. T. Francis CHAPTER 9 ................................................................................................. 88 ECOCRISIS AS A CRISIS OF SAINTS: GANDHIAN WAY AS A WAY OUT Mathew Alapattumedayil CHAPTER 10 ............................................................................................... 97 HARITA-ĝ