Women, Nature, Myth, and a Failed Utopia: A Study of Sundarbans Trilogy of Amitav Ghosh
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This paper examines women, nature and resistance in Amitav Ghosh’s Sundarbans trilogy through ecofeminist approach. In the trilogy, Ghosh presents the patriarchal and capitalist forces that commodify both women and nature, illustrating how environmental crises affect marginalised communities, especially women. In The Hungry Tide (2004), the Morichjhapi massacre exposes the violence embedded in state-led conservation policies, where ecological preservation becomes a tool of oppression, dispossessing vulnerable populations like Kusum and other settlers. Gun Island (2019) extends this critique, linking climate change, forced migration, and gendered precarity to global capitalist structures. Jungle Nama (2021) explains the myth of Bon Bibi, which challenges patriarchal narratives and reasserts nature’s agency. Through these texts, Ghosh tries to dismantle the binaries of nature/culture, women/men, and body/mind. He also advocates for an alternative ecological consciousness rooted coexistence. By weaving myth, history, and environmental critique, Ghosh foregrounds an urgent call for gendered ecological justice. His narratives disrupt anthropocentric and androcentric paradigms, envisioning a world where human survival is inextricable from ethical engagement with both nature and marginalised voices. This paper explores relationship of women and nature under patriarchy and capitalism along with their condition in myths and ‘utopia’.
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This paper examines women, nature and resistance in Amitav Ghosh’s Sundarbans trilogy through ecofeminist approach. In the trilogy, Ghosh presents the patriarchal and capitalist forces that commodify both women and nature, illustrating how environmental crises affect marginalised communities, especially women. In The Hungry Tide (2004), the Morichjhapi massacre exposes the violence embedded in state-led conservation policies, where ecological preservation becomes a tool of oppression, dispossessing vulnerable populations like Kusum and other settlers. Gun Island (2019) extends this critique, linking climate change, forced migration, and gendered precarity to global capitalist structures. Jungle Nama (2021) explains the myth of Bon Bibi, which challenges patriarchal narratives and reasserts nature’s agency. Through these texts, Ghosh tries to dismantle the binaries of nature/culture, women/men, and body/mind. He also advocates for an alternative ecological consciousness rooted coexistence. By weaving myth, history, and environmental critique, Ghosh foregrounds an urgent call for gendered ecological justice. His narratives disrupt anthropocentric and androcentric paradigms, envisioning a world where human survival is inextricable from ethical engagement with both nature and marginalised voices. This paper explores relationship of women and nature under patriarchy and capitalism along with their condition in myths and ‘utopia’.