Overtones of Symbiosis in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer

Abstract

This research paper seeks to explore the complex connectivity of human beings, diverse animal world, plants and landscape relation in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summerfrom an Ecocritical perspective. The researcher claims that the loss one spices chestnut from the Appalachians landscape is the cause for other spices to be lost those are dependent for the survival. Due to the lost of chestnut Appalachians people and different spices gets suffers in their life. As a result Appalachians laments for the local seeds of the chestnut thus local seeds which grown at any specific geographical landscapes need to be protected. The design of interconnection among organisms in naturethat function for the well-being of the environment is difficult to understand by the normal gaze of human beings. The anthropocentric tendency of human being tries to consume nature for itsbenefit without thinking about its consequences so that environmental degradation takes place. Though humans are different species than coyotes, moths and trees all deserve a place in a world since we depend on each other for different functions. By taking theoretical insights related to nature- human symbiosis and eco-criticism proposed by Allenna Leonard, Rosterfer Howard and Grey Garrard, this research finally concludes that the increasing of globalization has served western interest and has created deeper colonization of other cultures and planet’s life. Kingsolver’s novel prioritizes the equal role of human and non-human entities in nature and a reciprocal relationship for the sustainable future of environmental concerns.