Literary Narrative and Ecological Crisis: Ecocritical Perspectives on Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Writings

Abstract

This study analyzes Amitav Ghosh’s fiction through the lens of ecocriticism (in terms of how his writing addresses climate change and environmental degradation). Drawing on The Hungry Tide (2004), The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016), and the Ibis Trilogy (2008–2015), it examines how Ghosh instills an ecological consciousness into his narrative strategies and unsettles conventional anthropocentric perception. The paper situates his work within postcolonial environmentalism, and multispecies entanglement. It argues that Ghosh projects a postcolonial ecocritical vision using unstable geography, nonhuman agency, and historical ecology. Moreover, this vision reshapes how readers imagine the environment. The paper contributes to ongoing conversations in the environmental humanities regarding how literature can help mitigate environmental crisis.