Paper Details

Name: Ankdeep Kaur Attwal
Country: India

Year: 2017
Volume: Volume-4, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 25-33

Kiran Desai belongs to a new breed of writers who set a new trend in English Literature and lent a gust of freshness through their multiethnic, multicultural, and multiracial approach. She is a writer of global village who is born in one country, raised in another, and lives in another. More than being the daughter of a celebrated writer Anita Desai, Kiran Desai is a writer who has carved a niche for herself in the literary world with her two novels – The Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss (2006). This paper proposes to suggest that in The Inheritance of Loss, Desai gives ample evidence of entwinement of human concerns and ecology, something that emanates from her own concerns towards environment.
The key term here is ‘Ecology’ which according to Richard Kerridge “is the scientific study of natural interdependencies: of life forms as they relate to each other” (535). Ecology is derived from ‘Oikos,’ which means home. The term ranges wide as it also deals with the whole group of living organisms interacting with each other. Thus, the domain of ecology as a discipline includes the study of the whole inhabited earth.