MYTH AS ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTANCE TO ANTHROPOCENE IN AMITAV GHOSH'S JUNGLE NAMA: A STORY OF THE SUNDARBAN

The researcher has aimed to analyse Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban in the light of environmental resistance it faced from the Anthropocene. The capitalist’s paradigm and colonial regime have been exposed in the expounded study; which uncovers these oppressive practices which have poised challenges to the ecology. Ghosh’s re-telling the legend of Bon Bibi – Bengali origin, which focused the coexistence of the human-nature binary. Ghosh’s reimagination of myth in a form of oral storytelling in Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban as a living ethical framework which foster coexistence, nature-human harmony, and moral ethical responsibility toward the natural world. This research paper expounds Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban’ use of myth: Bon Bibi a goddess who protects the forest as a form of environmental resistance; challenging modern human exceptionalism, capitalist extraction and colonial ecological agency. The inherent human greed for the advancement to claim the higher-rank in life; which human seek for material possessions even at the cost of the exploitations of the nature this has been exposed in the proposed study, and the rift between human-nature is apparent. However, eventually, the unification of human-nature binary is also evident in Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban. The researcher has explored the above-mentioned thematic concerns especially with the consideration of the cause and effect of the capitalist extraction of the natural resources from the mangroves of the Sundarbans forests, thus exposed the complicated relationship of human with nature.