Volume V Special Issue VI December 2025

Name of Author : Sr. Chakkoria Deena David, Dr. Sr. Manju Jacob

Title of the paper : The Ecology of Exile: Eco Migration as Cultural Rupture in Sarah Josephs Gift in Green

Abstract: Sarah Josephs Gift in Green stands as a significant contribution to contemporary Indian environmental literature, revealing how ecological devastation generates deep cultural and emotional exile. Joseph, known for her ecofeminist voice and her commitment to portraying marginalized communities, constructs Aathi as an ecological homeland whose collapse disrupts collective memory and identity. This paper explores eco migration in the novel as a cultural rupture, arguing that displacement occurs not merely from loss of land but from the collapse of the ecological identity embedded within it. Using Ecocriticism and Environmental Cultural Studies particularly Rob Nixons concept of slow violence and Lawrence Buells assertion that environmental crisis is a crisis of the imagination the paper contends that environmental degradation functions as a force that fractures memory, identity, and cultural continuity. This research argues that environmental collapse in the novel triggers exile not only from land but from cultural imagination itself, revealing eco migration as a profound form of cultural displacement

Keywords : Eco migration, cultural rupture, Gift in Green, ecological identity, displacement, slow violence, environmental imagination.

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Page Number : 163-165