Ecocritical Study of Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi

In contemporary Indian English Fiction, Perumal Murugan is known as a quintessential Indian author who is famous for his themes of environmental consciousness and animal imagery. Most of Murugan’s novels reflect the relationship between nature and humans. This paper examines how Murugan articulates the urgent needs of environmental consciousness, which is truly based on Lawrence Buell’s framework of eco-critical reading and Rob Nixon’s concept of “Slow violence” and on other key eco-critics. Perumal also rejects the traditional settings of novels where human as a central characters and made his novels where non-human as a core literary voice. The researcher will use “The Story of a Black Goat” or Poonachi, originally written in the Tamil language, and later translated into English by N. Kalyan Raman in 2018.