Indian Feminist Ecocriticism

Indian Feminist Ecocriticism, a significant contribution to the domain of environmental humanities, is a mosaic of pan-Indian narratives such as poetry, prose, fables, folktales, and bucolic oral tradition. It intersects the nexus of caste-class, socio-culture, socio-economic, and trans/gender across a wide time span. The book uniquely explores ethnographically reductive representation, indigenous cultural identities, autochthone identity, and anthropomorphized women which paves the way to environmental citizenship. Moreover, it engages Samkhya philosophy, Prakriti, and Purusha, an interplay between man and nature. This book is an opportunity to delve into the patterns of Indian ecological narratives through a histography of Indigenous and philosophical perspectives. -- Sangita Patil, Lal Bahadur Shastri Government First Grade College, author of Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel
Indian Feminist Ecocriticism, edited by Douglas Vakoch and Nicole Anae, is a compelling volume which brings together ecoscholars from the Global South. While there have been diverse works in the area of feminist ecocriticism, this volume, devoted to the Indian subcontinent, knits together distinct voices from the Indigenous cultures, texts in translation, folktales, tinai poetics, and queer poetics—voices which have hitherto been in the fringes of the theoretical and global literary scenario. By focusing on the local and regional, this book casts the spotlight on issues and histories of the Indian women and their cultural representations which, though peculiar to India, are connected to the broad network of ecofeminism(s) across the world. -- Rayson K. Alex, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, co-editor of Essays in Ecocriticism