Abstract
In eco-fiction water has been a recurrent theme but its new connotations are employing water as a powerful character. There is establishment of Blue Ecology (DeLoughrey, 2007), and tidalectics (Brayton, 2012) taking oceanic studies and water to the level of new theories. I have substantiated my research in these theoretical categories and named the emotional association of young characters in the novels Don’t Cry Tai Lake and the Book of Gold Leaves as psychological regionalism and named these novels as water memoirs. Water speaks through character as the rigorous ecological agency to reinvigorate the sensibilities with a refreshed love and knowledge of lakes, rivers and seas. By analyzing these two novels I underline the significance of water novels as ecological diaries, catalogues of reassertion and of nativity. To see that water has been employed beyond the volume of a theme in South Asian Fiction, it has resonated the status of a module. The purpose of presenting these novels as water memoirs is to dismantle the superiority of land and equally establish water as ecological entity that can be seen as a potential savoir in upcoming environmental crisis and to establish an anti-contamination discourse.
Presenters
Madiha BashirStudent, Ph.D English, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Human Impacts and Responsibility
KEYWORDS
Blue Ecology, Psychological Regionalism, Water Memoirs, Anti-contamination
