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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We Speak in Different Tongues
An Eco-critical Reading of Selected Indian Female Poets

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar

Human Dominance

As the title indicates, we speak in different tongues, but the fundamental question is why and how? Before taking this aspect, it will be in place to first reiterate the concept ecocriticism. Since time immemorial, human beings have expressed themselves through various media including painting, music and writing. These human expressions have been subjected to a close critical scrutiny by the scholars. Literature, as generally believed, is an expression of the human experiences through language, but this is a limited view. Literature as a human artefact, with the help of language, not only expresses the human experiences but the nonhuman experiences as well. The tragedy of the situation is that these nonhuman experiences are either forcefully stifled or ignored by the writers and the readers alike. This generalization holds true even in other forms of expressions as mentioned above. The sole reason behind this is the dominance of the human subject over the nonhuman.

Ecological Approach Missing

In these times too, the works of art are read from various perspectives which take man as the centre of the universe. The approaches or the discourses such as patriarchal, feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, psychoanalytical and new historicist are the standard touchstones to analyse or evaluate a work of art in the classrooms and elsewhere. Since, literature is expressed through language, another human construct, numerous linguistic and stylistic theories, new criticism, formalism, semantics and structuralism have also been evolved to appreciate the works of art. What is missing so far is the ecological approach as applied to the study of literature.

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Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Assistant Professor
Lady Irwin College
University of Delhi
New Delhi 110001
India
shubhankukochar@live.com
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