This paper attempts to show Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace as a tale of impoverishment of the South Asian region, and its populace. The novel tries to establish colonialism, along with its imperialistic motives and the Christianising impulse..., as an ecocidal project. It is proposed that the pre-colonial symbiotic relations between man and nature were altered by the capitalist modernity introduced by the British colonists. The cultural plurality and biodiversity of these bioregions gave way

16 who lived in Vietnam during the colonial period. The narrator recalled those days when she met a Chinese man with whom she later had a love affair. Recollecting the past enables her not only to reminisce about the first love but also to reconsider... and protagonist, and adds a sense of the past to the narrative. Incidents and spatio-temporal dimensions in the novel correspond with some details in the autobiography of the French author who spent her youth in Vietnam during the colonial times.

Achebe’s (1958) classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is the first African novel to portray Igbo culture and give a detailed history of pre-colonial and colonial incursion into Africa. It is the position of this essay that as the novel provides insights... into the culture, politics, economy and history of pre-colonial and colonial periods, it would also offer a reading of the environmental perspectives of these periods.This essay employs both sociological and environmental justice approaches in its investigation

during the period of colonialism in South Africa, postcolonial tourism, whale conservation, and the challenge of global animal protection in relation to environmental justice. Throughout the study, the overlapping interests, as well as tension

the palimpsestuous relation of the two series, contending that the Siri Paiboun series operates as a site where colonial mimicry deviates from and later disrupts the authority of colonial discourse epitomized by the convention of French police novels..., to delegitimize its colonial authority by questioning the status of Simenon’s series as a model of roman policier, and, second, to criticize the Lao dysfunctional judicial system while his Belgian predecessor seeks to endorse the institutional authority

and seeking to reassign agency to the deprived and marginalized subjects of colonialism. Coetzee shifts the focus away from the level of competing narratives to an alternative account of the genesis of the canonical text itself. The article argues that Coetzee