Insight of Ecofeminism in the Post-Colonial Era of India, a Special Reference to Kamala Markandaya’s Novel Nectar in a Sieve

Abstract

The present paper attempts to study women’s consciousness about the nature around and how their lives devalued with a devaluation of nature in the novel of Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve. The author focussed on the relation between ecological devastation and women subjugation through the articulation of the central characters bringing an insight of ecofeminism into the novel. This paper reflects the life trajectories of the protagonist Rukmini after she lost her farming land and the healthy environment around for the expanding developmental ethics of ‘Tannery’.
The present paper introduces the theory of ecofeminism as it shows the attachment of women towards nature and finally, the crisis created by the industrial outbreak in the lives of women.