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Eco‑Feminist Narratives in Contemporary Indian Fiction

Authors: Patil, Ashwini Vijay;

Eco‑Feminist Narratives in Contemporary Indian Fiction

Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates how contemporary Indian fiction articulates eco‑feminist concerns. By analysing three recent novels:The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Arundhati Roy, 2017), _The White Tiger_ (Aravind Adiga, 2008) and _Kita_ (Mahasweta Devi, 2019) the study traces the interweaving of gendered dominance and environmental degradation.Employing a mixed‑methods approach that combines close textual reading with eco‑feminist theory (Plumwood, 1993; Shiva, 1988), the analysis shows that these works foreground “embodied resistance”: female protagonists who draw agency from natural landscapes, thereby challenging patriarchal and anthropocentric structures. The findings suggest that contemporary India fiction not only reflects eco‑feminist debates but also expands them by situating them within post‑colonial and neoliberal contexts.

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Keywords: Eco-feminism; Contemporary Indian Fiction; Gender and Environment; Embodied Resistance; Environmental Degradation; Patriarchy; Postcolonial Literature; Neoliberalism; Indigenous Epistemologies; Literary Eco-criticism.

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