Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World, 10th Annual International Colloquium 28-29-30 May 2015 1 1 Abstracts Plenary sessions Sangeeta RAY: “Ecology of Intimacies: An Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Reading South Asian Environmental...
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Society of Activities and Research on the Indian World, 10th Annual International Colloquium 28-29-30 May 2015 1 1 Abstracts Plenary sessions Sangeeta RAY: “Ecology of Intimacies: An Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Reading South Asian Environmental Novels." Novels and fiction in general play a key role in postcolonial ecocriticism. But precisely because criticism must pay attention to ecology or “the politics of nature” or the intersections between science studies and political ecology, questions of intimacy seem to hover around the edges of postcolonial ecocriticism. In this talk I want to use canonical environmental novels, to suggest how postcolonial affect is produced as a result of complex relationships between intimacy and the environment. While much has been written on the environment, questions of intimacy or the manner in which intimacy and the possibility of imagined intimate relationships disrupt and complicate ecological issues that propel the narrative have not been exa
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