The master's thesis analyzes selected novels of Indian literature written in english: Anita Desai's Cry, the Peacock (1964) Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997), Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2004) and Kiran Desai's (The Inheritance of Loss, 2006) from the perspective of postcolonial ecocriticism in regard to theorists of both areas, with an emphasis on the intersections of ecocritical and postcolonial studies (W. M. Adams, G. Huggan, H. Tiffin, V. Plumwood, A. Crosby, U. Heise and B. Jurša). A critical assessment of social circumstances is complemented by an in-depth study of the humanistic and environmental aspects, especially when there is a conflict of interest between them.
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