Posthumanist Strategies of Storytelling: “Metaphoric Connections” in A.K. Ramanujan’s A Flowering Tree by Nabanita Karanjai

A.K. Ramanujan’s “A Flowering Tree” reports a popular folktale from the Kannada oral tradition where the female protagonist transforms into a tree and gradually achieves agency. This paper argues that the tale makes possible the acknowledgement of the life-force (“zoe”) present in all the non-human life-forms constituting ecology.

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Towards a post(colonial)human culture: Revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island as a fall of Eurocentric humanism by Saikat Chakraborty

The essay explores whether, a text like Gun Island manifests a sense of revival of supressed cultural traditions as a reproach towards Eurocentric humanism.

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