N. Anjan N. Anjan N. Anjan , Dr. S. Ayyapparaja
Interrelationship between man and nature thus becomes degradation and continuous misuse of the environment tops the list of problems the world faces today. However, the concern for ecology and the threat that the continuous misuse of our environment poses on humanity have only recently caught the attention of the writers. It is this sense of concern and it’s reflect in literature that have given rise to new branch of literary theory namely Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism functions as a tool that draws the attentions of the world to crucial environmental issues through analysis of literature. The present paper study the Tribal Opression in Mahasweta Devi’s two short stories The Hunt and Madhu: A Fairy Tale using an ecocritical lenses. Devi illustrates how the environment as well as the tribal constitutes the subaltern in the modernising paradigms of development.
Tribal repression, Ecology, subaltern, modernising paradigms.