Ralph Nader considers Barry Commoner as “the greatest environmentalist of the 20 th century.” In the first rule of ecosystem, Commoner says, “Everything is concerned to everything else” (Glotfelty, and Fromm, 1996, xix). Studying the human-nature partnership in literature, therefore, is important to understand today’s environmental condition. The theory of eco-criticism is focused on the premise that human nature is strongly linked with the physical climate, such as one created by another or one that has a specific impact on another. William Rueckert coins the term ‘Ecocriticism’ in his essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism” (1978) and defines it thus: “Ecocriticism means the application of the ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.” Ecocriticism as a field of study started in the US from the 1980s and in the UK from the 1990s.

This paper analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus through an eco-critical lens to understand the relation of characters with nature. Thus, an important aspect of postcolonialism is ecocriticism which seeks to establish links between the idea of culture, environment, land, race and wilderness. Environmental degradation started with colonialism, as nature was exploited and the connection between people and nature were destroyed. He supports the ‘Chipko Movement’ which emerged as a farmers’ movement in the 1970s. In The Unquiet Wood (1990), Ramchandra Guha expresses grave concerns to save nature from those who have been profiteering by felling trees. Featuring a beaming Bill Clinton in Botswana and more sinisterly, a series of double-page spreads advertising Ford Motor Company’s commitment to the environment, the magazine duly joined the millennial rallying cry to save the planet, issues on behalf of a country that has done far less than one might reasonably expect to protect the global environment but far more than it could possibly have hoped to ‘reinvent the imperial tradition for the twenty-first century.’ (1) In April 2000, the American Magazine Time published a commemorative on Earth day issue. In this context, Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin write in Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment (2010): Many authors use literature as a medium to write about the environment and participate in environmental awareness. To avoid its consequences human beings need to be aware of nature and its ecosystem. The modern era faces serious environmental issues. By Narendra Kashinath Mule & Morve Roshan K.

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