Volume IV Special Issue V June 2024

Name of Author : Dr. S. Keerthy

Title of the paper : The Study of Ecocritical Tropes in Sarnath Banerjees Graphic Novels

Abstract: This study is to attempt an analysis of ecocritical tropes in the graphic novels of Sarnath Banerjee. Banerjee is an Indian graphic novelist, illustrator, artist, and filmmaker. This work resolutely reveals Banerjees ecological sensibility and his enthrallment with ecocritical tropes. Ecocriticism displays the interconnection between humans and nature it is the representation of nature in literature. The theory of ecocriticism has been earning reverence in the contemporary world owing to the impact of human annihilating actions on the ecocritical tropes. This study assesses Sarnath Banerjees five graphic novels – Corridor, The Barn Owls Wondrous Capers, The Harappa Files, All Quiet in Vikaspuri, and Doab Dil – from an ecocritical perspective by involving diverse ecocritical tropes such as wilderness, trees, animals, and ecocide to apprehend the ecological sensibility of Banerjee.

Keywords : Animals; Ecocriticism; Pollution; Trees; Wilderness.

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Page Number : 18-26