He-Rivers in Gulzan’s Green Poems
Keywords:
Environment, ecomasculinity, Gulzar, Green Poems, he-riverAbstract
Ecofeminism under its intersectional lens has studied how the various issues related to women, nonhuman living beings and ecology are interconnected. However, ecofeminism’s exclusive association of the ecology with the feminine not only leads the onus of environmental care as a sole added responsibility of the women’s struggle but also excludes the role of man as a generalized incapable exploiter who is all for a macho ethics of ‘daring’ and can never participate into the ethics of ‘caring’. This paper, striving to look for an alternative model of ecomasculinity, is a critical analysis of the select Green Poems of Gulzar where the he-rivers, challenging both the stereotyped notions of ‘mainstream’ hegemonic masculinity and androcentrism, seem to carry the markers of ‘eco man’ by performing an alternative eco-friendly masculinity.
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