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Cultural Nationalism and Environmental Ethics: Analyzing Eco-Conscious Themes in the Fiction Work of Kiran Desai

Author(s) Mr. Yash Paul, Dr. Renu Sharma
Country India
Abstract Kiran Desai is one among Indian contemporary fiction writer, who depicted to unveil the current issues through her works. She is a daughter of Indian English writer, Anita Desai, who has achieved a great position among Indian writers. Kiran Desai has received Booker Prize for her novel, “The Inheritance of Loss”, which has been published in 2006. A multicultural society consists of people from diverse ethnic classics and cultures living and working together. Eventually they would mesh together, and one culture would dominate. This would be cultural leveling or diffusion where the ideas and beliefs of one culture are spread around to others. This is a fertile ground for conflicts. Multicultural societies are hybrids. Even if one culture dominates, there still will be room for exposure to other ways of life as well as communication and cooperation between different subcultures within the primary society. Multiculturalism results in division and conquest.
Eco-conscious is a critical theory that analyzed how nature is represented in literary works and the kinship between literature and the natural environment. Eco-conscious has analyzed how human interaction with the natural world is portrayed in literary work of Kiran Desai. Her portrait of flora and fauna in her novels. The novel not only raises awareness of environmental and social concerns but also appeals against the threatening aspects of nature by highlighting the destruction caused by nature’s imbalances. The novel encompasses extensive elements of environmental importance. The author’s description is made more generous by unveiling the current environmental challenges and recommendations on them.
Keywords Cultural Nationalism, Environmental Ethics, Eco-nationalism, Eco-Consciousness.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 2, March-April 2025
Published On 2025-04-30
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i02.42538
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9g733

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