Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India (eBook)

Murali Sivaramakrishnan is poet, painter, professor and former chair of English at Pondicherry University.Zélia M. Bora is professor of Brazilian studies in the graduate program at University Federal of Paraíba.

Section 1: Contested Spaces: Resisting the Loss of Water and ForestsThe Loss of Nature, Human and Non human Relationship in Tamil Nadu V.Arivudai NambiHuman Intervention and the Depleting Well Springs of Nature A Case Study of Orange PoikaReinhart PhillipGreen Risk: Analyzing the Societal Harms in the Illegal Wood Trade of the Amazonian Rain Forest (Peru/Brazil)Siddharth Singh Monteiro BoraSabarimala: A Review of Development Threats to a Rare Forest EcosystemRajan GurukkalSection 2: Speaking Nature: The Cultural Dimensions of Water and LandThe Amazonian Forest Revisited: a critical reading of the novels by Dalcídio JurandirZélia M. BoraThe Saga of Subalterns amidst Resource Crisis: An Analysis of “Drought: Mahesh” and WaterNibedita BandyopadhyayRe-reading Nature, Restoring Nature: “The Inheritance of Loss” by Kiran Desai.Carmen Escobedo de TapiaNature, Religion and Ecological Sustainability in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideAnimesh Roy Section 3: The Voice of the Subaltern: Losing Nature“Good God! The Tambochas”: Ants and Environmental Vengeance in José Eustasio Rivera’s The VortexFrank IzaguirreAround and Inside Amazonian Rainforest: The Literary Manifestos of Vicente Franz Cecim Heloisa Helena Siqueira CorreiaAmazonian Mythology and the Theatre of A Rã Qi RiLigia Karina Martins de AndradeRole of Women in the Early Environment Movements in IndiaRekha Pande