Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature
Understanding sustainability in the Anthropocene through ecocritical discourses help us to deal with today’s environmental angst. Indigenous literature critically interprets the effects of cultural domination on Indigenous communities. This paper looks at the works of two Indigenous authors from...
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Understanding sustainability in the Anthropocene through ecocritical discourses help us to deal with today’s environmental angst. Indigenous literature critically interprets the effects of cultural domination on Indigenous communities. This paper looks at the works of two Indigenous authors from Northeast India to substantiate how literature through its creativity functions as force/medium of renewal and self-criticism of ‘cultural ecologies’, preserve oral narratives, utilize traditional ecological knowledge, use of conceptual categories like ‘ecopsychology’ and ‘topophilia’ in Indigenous literature to reformulate our ideas of life, death and sustainability.
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| spelling | doaj-art-93cabb500a644d5898d2b1b02582bebe2025-08-20T02:19:23ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariLagoonscapes2785-27092024-12-014210.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02/013journal_article_20485Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous LiteratureMazumder, Sayan 0Jadavpur University, India Understanding sustainability in the Anthropocene through ecocritical discourses help us to deal with today’s environmental angst. Indigenous literature critically interprets the effects of cultural domination on Indigenous communities. This paper looks at the works of two Indigenous authors from Northeast India to substantiate how literature through its creativity functions as force/medium of renewal and self-criticism of ‘cultural ecologies’, preserve oral narratives, utilize traditional ecological knowledge, use of conceptual categories like ‘ecopsychology’ and ‘topophilia’ in Indigenous literature to reformulate our ideas of life, death and sustainability. http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02/013Cultural ecology. Ecocriticism. Indigeneity. Northeast India. Sustainability. Traditional knowledge |
| spellingShingle | Mazumder, Sayan Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature Lagoonscapes Cultural ecology. Ecocriticism. Indigeneity. Northeast India. Sustainability. Traditional knowledge |
| title | Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature |
| title_full | Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature |
| title_fullStr | Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature |
| title_short | Life, Death and Sustainability through Indigenous Literature |
| title_sort | life death and sustainability through indigenous literature |
| topic | Cultural ecology. Ecocriticism. Indigeneity. Northeast India. Sustainability. Traditional knowledge |
| url | http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP/2785-2709/2024/02/013 |
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