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

Part 3. South Indian Perspectives

Chapter 9. Tinai and Representations of Nature and Women in Tamil Cankam Literature

N Depak Saravanan and A. Edwin Jeevaraj

Chapter 10. Ecofeminism and Its Impasses: Women Writing Nature in Malayalam Literature

Shalini M

Chapter 11. Postcolonial Women’s Writing in Malayalam Literature and Ecofeminism

Anupama Nayar CV

Chapter 12. Magic, Environment, and Malayalam Literature: Narrating the Slow Death of Aathi and Kasargod

Rahul V and Nagendra Kumar

Part 4. Intersectionality, Queerness, and Surveillance

Chapter 13. The Intersectional Spectrum and the Critical Legacy of the Novelists of the Indian Green

Ananya Chatterjee and Debajyoti Sarkar

Chapter 14. Conceptualizing a Queer Ecopoetics: The Politics of Intersectionality in the Postcolonial Era

Meghna Prabir and Shreyashi Sarkar

Chapter 15. Ecofeminism in Two Indian Dystopian Novels

Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar

About the Contributors

About the Author

Douglas A. Vakoch is president of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy.

Nicole Anae is senior lecturer in literary and cultural studies at Central Queensland University, Australia, where she also holds the position as head of course for the Master of Creative Writing degree.

Reviews

"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."

"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."