JAYPREETHI.M - Full Time Research Scholar, PG and Research Department of English, A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University,Tiruchirappalli), Poondi, Thanjavur-613502
Yann Martel's Life of Pi yields a grand narrative for exploring ecocriticism, anthropocentrism, and the ethics of othering. In this novel, Pi Patel, abandoned on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, challenges human-centric worldviews by exemplifying the complex linkage between humans and the planetary life. In this notion, Pi's survival is not just a subjective voyage but also an encounter with the non-human “other,” as animals, chiefly the tiger, are reconstructed from just symbols of danger to partners in existence...
Keywords: Animality, Anthropocentrism, Animal agency, biopolitics ecological ethics, Othering, relationality, sentience
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JAYPREETHI.M - Full Time Research Scholar, PG and Research Department of English, A.V.V.M Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University,Tiruchirappalli), Poondi, Thanjavur-613502 | The Narrative of Subjugation: Ethical Introspection on the Notion of Othering in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi | DOI:
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