Unraveling Climate Change and Environmental Issues through History in “Curse” - Bhakti Vaishnav

As declared by the Stanford University Team and discussed by Robert Macfarlane, we have entered another epoch of the earth and we belong to Generation Anthropocene. Anthropocene has emerged as an influential term in the field of literature and cultural studies in terms of its application as a critical tool. 2016. In the year 2003, Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term solastalgia which means a “form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change”. On the other hand , through an analysis that bridges non-fiction and fiction, Gib Prettyman’s argues that the Anthropocene challenge conceptions of what it means to be human, forcing us to ‘un-see our traditional perceptions of self-separation from our environment and work to perceive more accurately our intra-active entanglement with matter’. Some of the contemporary writers are occupied with intra-active entanglement and solastalgia when they are writing about the Anthropocene. Amitav Ghosh through his Nutmeg’s Curse unravels the passages of history and colonialism to provide an insight into man nature relationship/ issues of our times. The proposed presentation/ paper aims at studying this text in order to study , analyse and understand the ways in which the author brings out the multi-fold aspects of Anthropocene with his skilful blending of contemporary theories and examples across the world. The paper also seeks to understand the way in which this ardent researcher and story teller weaves his work on history ,climate change and environmental issues together and puts forward his arguments and insight in order to explain the fact that the monster of climate change or aftermaths of anthropocene require an interdisciplinary , inclusive, historically grounded , politically informed, non-consumerist , sustainable and ‘human’approach , human narrative.