ARUNDHATI ROY’S 'THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS' & KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S 'NECTAR IN A SIEVE' – AN ECOFEMINIST CRITIQUE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO COMMODIFICATION & IMPERIALISM (Pages 98-110) by Ms. Komal Raichura in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

The political economy of the imperialism has subverted the communion between the human and the nature; this asseveration of Environmental and Postcolonial Feminists strengthens the ground with the tours de force and commodification of the land in the recent times. The theoretical perspective supplied with the literary characterization here in this research would try to have an understanding of the co-relations of class and gender exploitation and environmental destructions for the craving of accumulation dominating the minds of imperialist human. To have a conceptual clarity of the commodity aspect of imperialist nature of the community, here, two texts are critiqued: Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve. Undoubtedly the analysis will go through the structural principles which explicit the layered complexity and binary view of man/woman, culture/nature which by and large centres the discussion on the patriarchal ideology that formulates the ground for capitalistic imperialism. In order to understand the novels completely with the surface meaning and the demystification of the historical aspects undermined, the research would develop a strategy which might be described as “negative dialectics of environmental feminism”. At the same time the work would strive to resist mythologizing identity, nature, and history and thus will demonstrate that praxis is possible even in a thoroughly commodified world. Keywords: Commodification, Ecofeminism, Ecological Criticism, Feminism, Imperialism, Post Colonialism