Changing Landscape of Punjab: An Ecocritical Reading of Balbir Parwana's Select Fiction
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Date
2016
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Contemporary Literary Review India
Abstract
In contemporary Punjabi fiction, Balbir Parwana holds an important
place. In his novels, he tries to trace out the changes occurring in
socio-cultural spheres of Punjabi society. Physical landscape of
Punjab has transformed greatly after green revolution. In this
paper, two novels of Balbir Parwana Gehar Charhi Asmaan (2010)
and Katha is Yug di (2011) have been studied from the ecocritical
point of view. These texts foreground the changes occurring in the
natural spaces, and being one of the few contemporary texts that
give so much thought to environmental degradation, these texts
are a commendable effort to bring into focus the hitherto
neglected and ecologically fragile region of Punjab.
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Ecocriticism, landscape, Punjab, nature, degradation
Citation
Singh, Amandeep., (2016) Changing Landscape of Punjab : An Ecocritical Reading of Balbir Parwana's Select Fiction., Contemporary Literary Review India. 3(1)., eISSN- 2394-6075