Exploring GeoHumanities: An Analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain – A Fable for Our Time

Abstract

Geohumanities is an emerging field focusing on the multifaceted intersections between human experience, society, space, and culture. Literature often finds resonance with specific geographic landscapes.  Amitav Ghosh is such a writer whose literary oeuvre has effectively shown the role of fiction and non–fiction by portraying the disastrous change of the climate and its consequences on every being in the chain of life. His fictional works, like The Hungry Tide (2004) and The Gun Island (2019), showcase how climate change and its disastrous effects have caused the dislocation of humans, animals, and plant life. This paper focuses on the impact of human interactions with nature by analysing Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain – A Fable for Our Time (2022). The present paper is an attempt to analyse these two works in the light of GeoHumanism by understanding the dislocation of nature and the complex dynamics of space, culture, and human existence.