1st Edition
Environmental Humanities in Folktales Theory and Practice
Foreword by Scott Slovic. Introduction: Heart, Hearth, and Earth. 1. Akam as an Ecological Philosophy 2. Mindscape, Storyscape, and Signscape 3. Folktales as Gaia Care Narratives 4. Storytelling as Eco-Pedagogy 5. Multiverse in a Grain
Biography
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi is Assistant Professor of English, Loyola College, Chennai, India. She obtained her BA, MA and PhD degrees from Stella Maris College. Her primary research was on the topic ‘Mother Earth Discourse as Conscientizacao: An Ecofeminist Approach to Folktales from India’ and she has identified an innovative folktale typology which connects women with environment. She has been a recipient of the Fulbright (FNAPE) Award for the year 2019-2020, and she worked on the topic ‘Indian Classical Ecocriticism: An Ecofeminist-Semiotic Study’. She has authored books titled ‘Bhoomi Tales’ (2015) ‘Nature’s Voices Women’s Voices’ (2015) ‘Nature, Culture and Gender: Rereading the Folktale’ with Routledge and Taylor and Francis (2016) and ‘Sylvan Tones: English through Folklore’ (2017).
