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Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
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This paper offers a study of postcolonial novel, A River Sutra by Gita Mehta from an eco-spiritual perspective. It includes the analysis of the ecological implications of Indian religions in it. It aims to explore Mehta’s engagement with the postcolonial issues while dealing with the environmental issues, her presentation of the relevance of nature to the divinity, and her construction of the traditional idea of the unity of diversities and self in the natural and the social world against the Narmada Valley Project. In her stories in the novel, Mehta presents various timeframes and diverse religious beliefs and practices in Indian culture. These religions have played significant roles in defining every aspect of cultural practices and cultural identity. She explores how the British global capitalist imperialists’ culture–nature dualism, which has sustained imperialist rule, has damaged the traditional bond between human beings and nature in India. She reflects a concern for the Narmada Valley Development Project of global capitalist imperialists, which aims to control the nature and has created the contemporary environmental problems around the Narmada River and fractured the traditional bond between nature and human beings. She reconstructs the co-existence of culture and nature and the Narmada River as the source of physical, cultural, and spiritual identities and survival of the Indian.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
31 Aralık 2021
Gönderilme Tarihi
29 Nisan 2021
Kabul Tarihi
15 Eylül 2021
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2021 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 2
APA
Biderci Dinç, D. (2021). Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 6(2), 377-390. https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029
AMA
1.Biderci Dinç D. Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2021;6(2):377-390. doi:10.33905/bseusbed.930029
Chicago
Biderci Dinç, Derya. 2021. “Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta”. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 6 (2): 377-90. https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029.
EndNote
Biderci Dinç D (01 Aralık 2021) Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 6 2 377–390.
IEEE
[1]D. Biderci Dinç, “Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta”, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 6, sy 2, ss. 377–390, Ara. 2021, doi: 10.33905/bseusbed.930029.
ISNAD
Biderci Dinç, Derya. “Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta”. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 6/2 (01 Aralık 2021): 377-390. https://doi.org/10.33905/bseusbed.930029.
JAMA
1.Biderci Dinç D. Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2021;6:377–390.
MLA
Biderci Dinç, Derya. “Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta”. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 6, sy 2, Aralık 2021, ss. 377-90, doi:10.33905/bseusbed.930029.
Vancouver
1.Derya Biderci Dinç. Culture, Religion, and Nature in A River Sutra by Gita Mehta. Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Aralık 2021;6(2):377-90. doi:10.33905/bseusbed.930029
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