ECOFEMINIST INTERCONNECTIONS IN ANITA DESAIS SELECTED NOVELS

The ecofeminist themes present in Anita Desais novels enable to conduct complete literary examinations which reveal how her primary critique of patriarchal systems stems from the dual oppression that women face together with environmental resource exploitation. Through her writing Desai shows how women experience oppression in the same way that natural environments face destruction because she describes examples of environmental damage which result from gender discrimination according to the earth democracy philosophy of Vandana Shiva and the study of gender-based environmental harm by Maria Mies. Through her selected works of Cry the Peacock, The Village by the Sea and Fire on the Mountain Desai presents female leads who use their psychological scars and their connections to polluted places to create artistic forms of rebellion against their environment.