K. Divya
The present world scenario’s emerging innovative inventions and discoveries struggle to harmonise with nature and the environment. The eminence of nature over human thoughts and their re?ections paved the way for ecocriticism’s advent. Postcolonialism can be preserved as a study of theory and literature that exhibits coloniser-colonised experience. The colonialism tendency and its association with the consciousness of the environment paved the way for the ecological imperialism mode. Rather than political and cultural tyranny, the colonisation process can be regarded as environmental terrorism. Ecological imperialism, or the more condensed term eco-imperialism, can be viewed as the contempt of colonists towards the environment. They are conquering by upsetting the natural balance of the established ecological system. In the present scenario, one can experience the similar mentality of imperialists who are ready to exploit the resources and destroy nature under the pretext of expansion. The eco-imperialism threat to the world exists in the form of advanced inventions like bioweapons and other nuclear hazards. In contrast, the arti?cial synthesis of life becomes the primary key in the novel entitled Prey by Michal Crichton, a cautionary tale about the up-gradation of scienti?c and technological ?elds like genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Prey succeeds in its effort to expose the emerging conditions of ecological imperialism and neo-colonialism related to technological advancement and inventions. The present paper attempts to analyse the traces of eco imperialism in the science ?ctional work Prey.
Postcolonialism, Technology, Eco-imperialism, Science ?ction