Ecological Interconnections

Shruti Das is professor and head of the Post Graduate Department of English and director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Berhampur University.Mridul Bordoloi is professor and head of the Department of English at Dibrugarh University.

• ContentsForewordRichard KerridgeAcknowledgmentsIntroductionShruti Das and Mridul BordolaiPart I: Interspecies Communication and IntersectionChapter1: Fungal Friends: The Parable of the Mushroom in Canadian LiteratureErin SamantChapter 2 : Spiral of Destruction: War, Silence, and Environment in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Ike’s Sunset at DawnThomas Jay LynnChapter 3: Stone and Rocks in Tribal Folk Imagination: A Study with Reference to Folktales and Traditions from Northeast IndiaArzuman AraChapter 4: Telluric Aesthetics in Nina Bouraoui’s Le Jourdu Séisme: From the Cartography of Memory to the Seismic Knowledge of the BodyAzzeddine BouhassounPart II: Eco-ethical Intersection and ResponsibilityChapter 5: Ancient Indic Wisdom Inherent in the Concept of Aprigraha as Eco-ethics and Environmental Concerns TodayJagriti UpadhyayaChapter 6: The Postsecular Ecology of the Pynchon verse: Gravity’s Rainbow in TranslationLukasz BarcinskiChapter 7: Eco-wokeism, Eco-justice, and Eco-precarity: Critical Reading of Assamese Poetry and Short StoriesMridul BordoloiChapter 8: The Posthuman Condition and Ecological EthicsShruti DasChapter 9: An Eco-thealogical Analysis of S´aktaTantra with Reference to the Myths of Two Tantric GoddessesSudipta ChakrabortyChapter 10: The Surreal Symphony: Interweaving Nature, Culture, Myth and Human Psyche in Durga PujaAshes GuptaChapter11: Trade in Exotics and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century British IdentitiesSaswati Halder and Md. ShahnawazPartIII:TowardsEcologicalSustainabilityChapter 12: Animals and the Empire: The Representation of Wildlife in Selected Colonial Travelogues on AssamAkash BorchetiaChapter 13: Interspecies Ecologies, Rural Communities, and the Human-Horse Relationship: A View from BrazilMiriam AdelmanChapter 14: The Hidden Life of Mosses: Lessons in Resilience and Resistance in Liz Ziemska’s Short Story Hunt RelicPatrycja AustinChapter 15: Sustaining in the Wilderness: An Ecopsychological Exploration of Lauren Groff's The Vaster WildsRanjit Mandal and Shruti DasChapter 16: “When We Cease to Understand the World”: Place, Possible and Real, in the Films of Andrei TarkovskyKasturi MukherjeeAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors