LITERATURE AND ECOCRITICISM: A STUDY OF SELECTED NORTH-EAST INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH

Ecocriticism calls for a universal concern and awakening. While the concern for Nature births ecocentrism with Nature as its priority, the opposite stands for anthropocentrism which stands for a man-centred concept. Through the various writings of Temsula Ao, D. Kuolie and Mamang Dai, it is evident that themes such as ecological depletion and exploitation, cultural shift, grief over Natures eroding state, and the glorification and might of Nature are the most common trends. The aim of the writers in projecting their homeland as their ideal place is justified by their concern for its ecology and their observation of change upon their lands with the change of time.