Quest for Eco-spirituality: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Forest of Enchantments

Quest for Eco-spirituality: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Forest of Enchantments

Shivangi

Abstract

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni stands as a literary giant with several awards to her credit and a trailblasing career as a novelist, poet, children’s writer, activist, and creative writing teacher. The passion and zeal with which she weaves her imaginative world have gained her a wide readership and much critical acclaim across the globe. Divakaruni’s writings offer a unique standpoint that embraces nature while challenging the doctrines of patriarchy at the same time. Her unwavering belief in the reciprocity, mutuality, circularity, and interconnectedness of the natural world injects vibrancy and potency into her celebrated fictional cosmos. This article seeks to scrutinise Divakaruni’s modern retelling of the Ramayan under the lens of spiritual ecofeminism.