Slow Violence in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games: An Ecocritical Reading

Title

Slow Violence in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games: An Ecocritical Reading

Creator

Sabu M.; Mudaliar M.

Description

This article gives insight into the ways in which enforcement and institutional vigilante activities portrayed in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games foreshadow the urban thicket of garbage dump yards and slum dwellings. The text will be analyzed from an ecocritical perspective to establish aspects of slow violence and its explicit and implicit results. Chandras plotline, regarding several entangled human tragedies against the background of refuse, urges a study of the novel through the lens of waste studies. However, he fails to address the reasons for the characters opinion of Mumbai being uninhabitable and infamous for treating human life as expendable. The novelist also seems to normalize the issues of inequalities in waste management and justifies the anthropocentric utilitarian perception of resources. The depictions of Mumbai gang wars against a disturbingly overlooked state of dilapidated lives and misplaced ideologies mention waste as being both created and ignored. Such representation also compels a close reading of consumerism and criminal aspiration. 2023, University of Zadar. All rights reserved.

Source

Sic, Vol-13, No. 2

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

University of Zadar

Subject

ecocriticism; slow violence; socio-environmentalism; waste studies

Coverage

Sabu M., Christ Deemed to be University, India; Mudaliar M., Christ Deemed to be University, India

Rights

All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access

Relation

ISSN: 18477755

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.15291/sic/2.13.lc.5

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