Environmental Humanities in Folktales

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It identifies and explores motifs and patterns in select folktales that promote interconnectedness, interdependence, holism, synthesis, and circular pattern of life.

Autorentext

P. Mary Vidya Porselvi is Assistant Professor of English, Loyola College, Chennai, India. She obtained her BA, MA and PhD degrees from Stella Maris College. Her primary research was on the topic 'Mother Earth Discourse as Conscientizacao: An Ecofeminist Approach to Folktales from India' and she has identified an innovative folktale typology which connects women with environment. She has been a recipient of the Fulbright (FNAPE) Award for the year 2019-2020, and she worked on the topic 'Indian Classical Ecocriticism: An Ecofeminist-Semiotic Study'. She has authored books titled 'Bhoomi Tales' (2015) 'Nature's Voices Women's Voices' (2015) 'Nature, Culture and Gender: Rereading the Folktale' with Routledge and Taylor and Francis (2016) and 'Sylvan Tones: English through Folklore' (2017).

Inhalt

Foreword by Scott Slovic. Introduction: Heart, Hearth, and Earth. 1. Akam as an Ecological Philosophy 2. Mindscape, Storyscape, and Signscape 3. Folktales as Gaia Care Narratives 4. Storytelling as Eco-Pedagogy 5. Multiverse in a Grain