A Symbolic Representation of Environmental Exploitation in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard

Abstract

This paper attempts to conceptualize the affiliation of nature and women as textualized by Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard (1998). Nature imagery in this novel allows the reader to investigate how nature is used literally or metaphorically in literary texts and how human condition is transcribed through the evocation of natural icons. An eco-feminist study of this novel explores the unexplored realms of female psyche. An eco-critical study substantiates the concept that nature and women are rapidly being subordinated in the name of culture now a days, so ecological balance as well as women liberation are essential prerequisites for holistic life.