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Apr 25, 2024
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HON 250 - Indian Ecocriticism(4 credits)
Prerequisite(s): Honors standing or permission of University Honors Program. Ecocriticism is a postmodern critical theory gaining popularity in the academy all over the world. Though it has emerged in the 1980’s as an academic discipline in the west, its Indian equivalent, namely, tinai, had been a critical framework in India even in the pre-Christian era. In the post-Christian era, it was a generic matrix for non-Dravidian literary texts also as in the case of the Prakrit text, Gathasaptasati, and the Hindi text, Satasai. “Indian Ecocriticism” introduces the learners to a proto-ecocritical theory by contrasting it with its twentieth century western counterparts. Though tinai is a theory about the interrelationship among humans, nature and the sacred in the primal society, the course shows how it can be applied to cultural texts of such non-primal societies as the stratified and the anarchic also. While the western varieties of ecocriticism are dualistic in their philosophical orientation, their Indian counterpart is non-dualistic privileging ontic continuity. Concepts like oikos, dualism, monism, identification and ontic community will be discussed wherever necessary. This course may fulfill a General Education Requirement.
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