Yamini Dand Shah-"Interventions on mangroves through ecological and humanist literature”

“Political and gendered interventions on mangroves through ecological and humanist literature: Selected poems from Yamini Dand Shah’s ‘Abstract Oralism’ in comparison with Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide’”.
The paper proposes to interpolate critical enquiries into selected poems of Yamini Dand Shah’s research poetry collection ‘Abstract Oralism’ in comparison with Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Hungry Tide’. The environmentalist cum eco-critical methodology unearths the rather humanist understanding of the two genres based on ecological degradation of mangroves and their depiction. The biodiversity of backwaterestuarine type of mangroves of the west coast to the deltaic mangroves of the east coast of India create a backdrop of resilience shifting the focus on the cultural politics that comes with regional identity under the larger rubric of the pitfalls of national consciousness. The paper also raises issues surrounding varied forms of enunciation, be it oral or local subsumed under the project of narrativization. The thesis statement being the gendered microcosmic study of their impact in contrast with global economies and environmental precarity.