LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Nature as Healer: An Eco-Critical Reading of Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World

G. Baskaran, Ph.D. and Mrs. S. Mangaiyarkarasi, M.A., M.Phil.

Abstract

An attempt has been made in this article to interpret Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World as a novel dealing with the eco-critical values and the characters representing the society. It also traces the existing relationship between people and nature. As a diasporic novelist, Mukherjee searches the association between women and their contribution to nature.

Bharati Mukherjee’s Heroines

The world is a mind and travel is a manifestation of the inner self. The spiritual goal is thus not antithetical to worldly life. Nature plays a vital role in purging of human emotions and granting the spiritual salvation one seeks for. Bharati Mukherjee’s heroines are self-creators and women who command large dimensions of their own fate. They move through expansive open landscapes with a vital energy and are able to convert that social world into a landscape adequate to the enquiring spirit. The patriarchal society which pertains woman to nature also exploit woman just as the natural resources that have been exploited. Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World is a novel that juxtaposes the past and the present by exploring the transnational travel through geographical boundary and at the same time covers the period from twentieth to seventeenth century. Mukherjee’s heroine Hannah Easton’s journey through continents is symbolic in reaching out to nature in moments of crisis and despair. Nature regenerates her yearning soul and transforms her as the promoter of peace towards her final journey.

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G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed University)
Gandhigram 624 302
Tamilnadu
India
rgbaskaran@gmail.com

Mrs. S. Mangaiyarkarasi, M.A, M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
S.T. Hindu College
Nagercoil-629 002
Tamilnadu
India
tejasmangai@yahoo.co.in
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