The Aesthetics of the Green Postcolonial Novel in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Abstract

Sulla scia della convergenza tra ecocritica e postcolonialismo, il mio articolo analizza The Inheritance of Loss (2006) di Kiran Desai, un romanzo che unisce il senso di perdita umana al degrado ambientale. Si sostiene che l’estetica del green postcolonial anima il complesso romanzo di Desai che intreccia narrativa, storia, realismo e immaginazione. Attraverso la descrizione della brutalità umana, di paesaggi dalla vegetazione lussureggiante e di una ricca gamma di flora e fauna, The Inheritance of Loss critica le posizioni antropocentriche, sfocando il confine tra umano e non-umano.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-77

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