LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 19:10 October 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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Plant Life and Richard Powers’ The Overstory

Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan, M.A. (English), M.Phil., Ph.D. (ELT)
Jismy K Joseph, Research Scholar


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/Overstory-Novel-Richard-Powers/dp/039335668X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Richard+Powers&qid=1570738785&s=books&sr=1-1

Abstract

The paper looks at the contribution of Richard Powers as a novelist who blends genres and disciplines with the consummate ease of an artist combining various colours and shades to lend magical touches to landscapes. An abiding strength and theme running through Power’s novels is the delicate mixing and inter-mixing of disciplines and the inevitable overlapping of science with arts, imagination with scientific temperament and artificial intelligence with natural. In one of his novels, he lends his surreal touch by combining the natural sciences with environmentalism and the bigger issues of our time – racism, sexism, gender disparity, discrimination against women in scientific establishments, etc. and shows himself as another Rachel Carson, whose spring of ideas is not silent this time.

Keywords: Richard Powers, The Overstory, fiction, plant life, eco criticism, ecology, science

Introduction

Perhaps few writers/novelists are as under rated as Richard Powers whose novels span a whole gamut of genres from eco criticism to quantum physics to computers science. A physicist by profession, Powers is nevertheless the proverbial jack of all trades and master of all that he writes as he wields that pen with the finesse of an astrophysicist working on partial differential equations detailing the fate of the universe and beyond.

Powers is in many ways the Einstein of science fiction with his abstract and sensuous themes. straddling a landscape that only those who are as academically brilliant as he is, would find relevant or even comprehensible.

In fact, in The Over story, environmentalism manifests itself as a powerful narrative.

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Dr. M. Raja Vishwanathan, M.A. (English), M.Phil., Ph.D. (ELT)
Assistant Professor of English
National Institute of Technology Warangal
vishwanathanmrv@gmail.com
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Jismy K Joseph
Research Scholar
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
National Institute of Technology Warangal
jismykjoseph.jkj@gmail.com
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