Trough this ppt I tried to explain the importance of environment in human life. The question of existence human life and freedom. Through the literature we can create an awareness about the environment. For this Amitav Ghosh is the best example.

1. Contribution of Amitav Ghosh in sustainable
development of Eco-crticism: A study of The
Hungry Tide.

2. • ECO-CRITICISM
• Meaning- Representation of nature in literature or
relationship between literature and
environment.(physical environment)
• Origin of the term- William Rueckent-essay-
Literature and Ecology :An experiment in Eco -
crticism, 1978

3. • Amitav Ghosh ( 1956 July11)
• Major Works :-
• The circle of Reason -1986
• The Shadow Lines-1988
• The Calcutta Chromosome-1995
• The Glass Palace-2000
• The Hungry Tide-2004
• Sea of Poppies-2008
• River of Smoke -2011
• The Flood of Fire -2015

4. The Hungry Tide
 His indigenous concerns about environmental calamity
and man-nature interface.
 The Hungry Tide constructs nature by using experience
and history to divulge human interaction with the non
human world.
 Human history is caught up in natural history
 Wildlife v/s Human life
 Morichjhapi -1979- ecosystem- man live and fight with
animals and tides
 Place and histories

5. • Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide from eco –critical point of
view:-
• The interface between humans and physical
environment
• Imaginative text and environment
• Indigenous of historical episode ( morichjhapi,1979)
• A beautiful landscape ( sundarbans)
• Whether place has link to human culture?

6. • Authors do really absorb with ecological
corollary?
• Conflict between wilderness and human
civilization
• a splendor about man’s place in physical
environment.
• The beautiful land scape which appears is a
dynamic character in the novel

7. • Ghosh himself said :
“The Hungry Tide is at bottom a story about a
relationship between a girl and two men….one of the
major characters in the book, actually , is the landscape
in which it’s set.’’ ( Ghosh says in Brisbane Writer’s
festival, 2004, Australia . Source :readersvoice.com.
Nov7,2007)

8. Amitav Ghosh
His view on climate change:
 “Climate change poses a powerful challenge to
the idea of freedom”
 His recent book : The Great Derangement :
climate change and the unthinkable

9. Thanking you,
HALESHAPPA VV
Research scholar in English