GUN ISLAND: REAL AND UNCANNY ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY

ABSTRACT

The world is a place of excess and depravity. Greta Thunberg, the global warming activist, arrived and took a position on the precipice. It is time to make a commitment and raise our voices in support of it. Numerous authors have begun writing on the subject of global warming and environmental degradation, as it has been mostly ignored and given little attention in the literature. Amitav Ghosh is one of those writers who has always emphasised the importance of voice and has written about it in his novels. He explores the real and spooky situation of environmental campaigning in his most recent fiction, Gun Island. It contains elements of magic, mythology, history, science, biology, and etymology. It’s about climate change, but it’s also about migration and human trafficking at the moment. The rationale for the disparate difficulties appears to have stemmed from his recognition of the border’s questionable character. The novel Gun Island uses geography as a significant metaphor, and the physical environment as a representation of an active force that connects plant, animal, and human life, with one being touched directly or indirectly by the others. Ghosh delves into the challenges confronting mankind during the Anthropocene period. All of these people face the same consequences when they come into contact with the environment, which includes forests, rivers, snakes, crocodiles, and tigers, as well as natural calamities such as cyclones and violent storms. This essay aims to shed light on collective denial in the face of climatic collapse, which is also a cultural crisis in the realism and surrealism traditions.

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