Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: An Ecocritical Text

Abstract

Modern literature has recently focused on the long-ignored powerful interaction between people and the natural world. The relationship sheds significant light on ecological research and ecocritical literature. Literary writers today concentrate on the most important environmental issues in their literary writings to draw attention to ecosystem and natural issues. Some of them is Amitav Ghosh. His novel The Hungry Tide, set in the Sundarbans, also known as the ‘Beautiful Forest,’ and covering an area of more than 10,000 square kilometers, offers the narrative of the forced evaluation of refugees from the island of Marichjhapi. The major themes of the novel are environmentalism and destabilization.