Analysing the Concept of Ecofeminism in Selected Indian English Novels

Abstract

Ecofeminism is a theory that links the fair sex with ecology. It puts parallel the exploitation of nature and women by the dominant counterparts. Women share the values of nurturing, breeding and creating with nature. The present paper endeavours to relate the domination over women in the patriarchal society to the destruction of nature by encroachers. It seeks to outline the symbiotic relationship of nature and women, as to how women preserve nature which in turn helps to heal them. The paper will cite novels by modern Indian women like Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markanday to bring in light the plight of Indian women, oppressed by the weight of stereotypical norms and their seclusion or alienation in nature. The paper gives a brief explanation of post colonial male capitalist ideology to study its negative impact upon nature and women.