Hydropolitics, Colonization, and Frontiers: Reading Dystopian Landscapes in Hawai‘i and India

Autori

  • Nandita Ghosh Fairleigh Dickinson University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.2.5241

Parole chiave:

Hydropolitics, Trask, Swaminathan, ecocriticism

Abstract

This article presents a close reading of Haunani Kay Trask’s book of poetry (Light in the Crevice Never Seen) and Komal Swaminathan’s play Thaneer! Thaneer! (Eng. trans. Water! Water!).  Both texts reveal water-scarce landscapes  in Hawai‘i and India that tell stories of colonization of local populations.  In so doing, these foreground a certain hydropolitics: that water pollution and scarcity is the result of its commercialisation by global capital, which has despoiled ecological systems and the habitat of all species on the planet.  Finally, this article foregrounds how writers like Trask and Swaminathan can actively draw their readers’ attention to the environmental frontiers reached by such politics and help them reimagine alternative futures.

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Biografia autore

Nandita Ghosh, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Dr. Nandita Ghosh completed her PhD in Postcolonial Literature specializing on South Asia at Fordham University in New York City, United States. She was enabled by a grant from the American Association of University Women. She teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ as an Associate Professor of Literature. She has published academic articles in journals and book chapters in anthologies on contemporary India relating to issues of caste, gender, religious and rural urban conflicts concerning underdevelopment.  She is currently working on her book manuscript for which she has been aided by the Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

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Pubblicato

2026-10-31

Fascicolo

V. 17 N. 2 (2026): Eco-Crip Cultures: Disability and the Environment

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Articles: General Section

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