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

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
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spelling doaj-b26f2d9915484e3e8ed4d9894ccdfabf2020-11-24T23:53:37ZengUniversity of UdineLe Simplegadi1824-52261824-52262017-11-01151731432410.17456/SIMPLE-77The Aesthetics of the Green Postcolonial Novel in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of LossAngelo MonacoDrawing 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 fiction, history, realism and imagination. By staging human violence, gleaming landscapes and a rich ecological wealth of flora and fauna, The Inheritance of Loss exposes a critique of the anthropocentric positions, blurring the border between human and non-human.http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/wp-content/uploads/2017/Simplegadi_17_2017_Monaco.pdf
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description 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 fiction, history, realism and imagination. By staging human violence, gleaming landscapes and a rich ecological wealth of flora and fauna, The Inheritance of Loss exposes a critique of the anthropocentric positions, blurring the border between human and non-human.
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