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Abstract This thesis aims, first, to present postcolonial ecocriticism as a recent critical approach. Second, it aims to present a critical analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s novels, Sea of Poppies, The Glass Palace and The Hungry Tide, from a postcolonial ecocritical perspective. The thesis, therefore, is divided into three chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter sets the theoretical background of the whole study and presents postcolonial ecocriticism as a recent critical approach. The second chapter discusses different types of land exploitation and different forms of environmental justice in the global South. It also seeks to uncover how oppressed postcolonial communities resist economic dispossession and environmental injustice in Ghosh’s novels Sea of Poppies and the The Glass Palace. The third chapter surveys the themes of othering and globalization in Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide. It makes reference to the relationship between humans and animals, humans and other humans and humans and nature, and sheds light on the influence of conservation projects on people and environment in the Sundarbans. |