Nature, Hunter and the Hunted: Eco-consciousness in Samares Mazumdar’s Selected Bengali Crime Fictions

Paul, Abhra

doi:10.1080/14688417.2018.1454844

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“…His discussion of Samarez Mamzudar's works of fiction reveals that humans continually compete with wildlife for space and resources through the practice of land clearing and exploitation, which triggers the loss of both habitat and inhabitants, including humans themselves. By portraying violations and investigations regarding the uncontrollable anthropogenic activities, such as smuggling, poaching, extorting, and disrupting biodiversity, Mamzudar reminds the readers that humanity is graced with the highest intelligence of all creatures, which should have made them bond a decent relationship with nature instead of degrading it like what occurs nowadays (Paul, 2018).…”

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Exploitation and Conservation

Shafira

Retnaningdyah²

2022

Pioneer. J. Lang. Lit

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Employing ecology as the pivotal basis of its narrative, Dune by Frank Herbert is regarded as the pioneer of ecological science-fiction novels. This qualitative study intends to examine the exploitation and conservation of nature and how human background influences such behaviours in Frank Herbert’s Dune. The researcher employs an ecocritical approach to literature to discuss the compiled textual data. Through the thematic analysis technique, this article reveals how Dune highlights the issues of the authority party and the indigenous society of Arrakis triggered by the abundance of the spice melange and the absence of water and vegetation, where these two sides of the population have contradictory intentions towards natural resources—exploiting and conserving. Moreover, the study unveils that the extortion attempts of the Galactic Imperium, the Harkonnens, CHOAM, and the Spacing Guild are driven by political and economic motives, and the conservation effort of the Fremen and the Atreides is the outcome of their ecological awareness.

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Exploitation and Conservation

Shafira

Retnaningdyah²

2022

Pioneer. J. Lang. Lit

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“…Likewise, in her study of Onsigbaar ( Blood Safari , 2009) by South African, Afrikaans‐language writer, Deon Meyer, Sam Naidu draws on the work of South African ecocritical scholars to argue for a critical practice that “is sensitive to the history of both human and environmental exploitation in this region,” meaning South Africa (60). More recent ecocritical approaches to crime fiction replicate the local paradigm by studying environmental issues in specific national and sub‐national regional contexts: Britain (K. Bishop; N. Bishop; Carroll; McLauchlan), Chile (Canepa), India (Paul), Mexico (Goldberg), Scandinavia (Mai), Sweden (Mäntymäki), and the diverse landscapes of the United States of America: California (Ashman), Florida (Horsley), Wyoming, and the Navajo Nation (Dechêne and Di Gregorio).…”

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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Of Capitalism and Animal Oppression: Exploring the Ecological Engagements with Select Crime Fictions of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Samaresh Majumdar

Sarkar¹,

Karmakar²

2021

South Asian Review

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Nature, Hunter and the Hunted: Eco-consciousness in Samares Mazumdar’s Selected Bengali Crime Fictions

Cited by 3 publications

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Exploitation and Conservation

Exploitation and Conservation

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

Of Capitalism and Animal Oppression: Exploring the Ecological Engagements with Select Crime Fictions of Sunil Gangopadhyay and Samaresh Majumdar

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