The Aesthetics of the Green Postcolonial Novel in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Drawing upon the convergence of ecocriticism and postcolonialism, my article explores Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006), a novel that bridges human loss and environmental degradation. It is my contention that a green postcolonial aesthetics animates Desai’s complex novel that weaves ficti...

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Main Author: Angelo Monaco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Udine 2017-11-01
Series:Le Simplegadi
Online Access:http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2017/Simplegadi_17_2017_Monaco.pdf