Attunement to others multispecies cohabitation in the Anthropocene Amit R. Baishya

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baishya, Amit R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic fiction (English)--Women authors.

Human ecology in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Attunement to Others explores how contemporary Indian fiction engages with the crises of the Anthropocene through narrative practices of relationality. Reading the works of Arundhati Roy, Nilanjana Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Vandana Singh, Avinuo Kire, and Janice Pariat, Amit R. Baishya shows how these texts register the Anthropocene not as a singular rupture but as a “polycrisis” marked by ecological, political, and affective entanglements. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism, affect theory, and the environmental humanities, the book examines how acts of attunement—moments of listening to and sensing nonhuman others—shape ethical imaginaries and alternative ways of being. Rather than offering escapist or utopian visions, these fictions reveal how attunement emerges through grounded, affective practices of cohabitation, survival, and resistance on a damaged planet. In doing so, Attunement to Others contributes to interdisciplinary conversations on literary form, planetary crisis, and the nonhuman turn in postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Multispecies I : animals, multispecies cohabitation in Delhi

Cli-fi poetics

Cetacean representations in Indian cli-fi

Arboreal geo-cosmologies

Arborostratigraphy : reading like a tree

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Baishya, Amit R. Attunement to others

ISBN:

9781009735278

1009735276

OCLC:

1531218799

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