An Open Discourse On Ecocriticism Contextualizing Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain: A Fable Of Our Times

Abstract: The Living Mountain: A Fable of Our Times(2022) is an epoch making work of the age. It is a fictional story that is the representation of critical insight of human-environment relationship in the form of a fable. The growing insurgence of human towards nature is fruitfully depicted through eco-critical lens. Eco-criticism is a field of literary studies that includes the importance of environmental consciousness and intricate relationship between humans and their environment. Though the term eco-criticism came in 1950s and 1960s yet it gained popularity in the twenty first century. This century is viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and environment. As a result, environmental degradation is more visible nowadays. On this context, this paper explores a discourse on eco-criticism by explaining the relationship between “Varvaroi” and the great mountain, between “Anthropoi” and the great mountain in the Himalayan region in relation to the work The Living Mountain. In addition to that, it will include how ecological imperialism and its aftermath violates harmonious cohabitation between human and nature.