THE RHETORIC OF ECOPRECARITY: A STUDY OF VULNERABILITY IN THE ROAD BY CORMAC MCCARTHY
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.3138Keywords:
Environmental Ruin, Ecoprecarity, Eco-Critical DystopiaAbstract [English]
Eco-dystopia or Eco-critical dystopia focuses on the environmental ruin and how that brings subsequent changes to the society. Eco-dystopia tells the stories of apocalypse, dilapidated earth, earth’s rebel against human exploitation and human adversity due to the loss of natural resources. These echo the environmental concerns that need to be addressed properly. Eco- dystopian novels articulate the near future crisis that stress much importance on the environmental disaster caused by human intervention. Dystopian novels in general speculate a society packed with dystopian elements such as technological control, religious control, loss of individuality, survival as well as environmental havoc. Major issues of climate change have been described in many dystopian novels throughout the years. For instance, Parable of the Sower, Tentacle, American war, The Fifth Season and so on predict the future, where global warming and pollution have led to the eradication of society. Extreme weather, food shortage, rising sea levels, high pollution, climate change have become the core of these novels.
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