Beyond the Anthropocentric and Mythopoeic: Representation of Animals in Post-90s Indian Poetry in English

Abstract

Gurleen Kaur’s “Beyond the Anthropocentric and Mythopoeic: Representation of Animals in Post-90s Indian Poetry in English” acknowledges that animals have primarily been precieved, over the ages, from the reductive vantage point of anthropocentric discourses and limited as symbolic deities, which contemporary Indian English poetry seems to be problematise. In Indian mythology, animals usually find themselves marginalized; however, Kaur reads select poems to identify instances of the reservsal of this mythopoeic deification and humanist anthropomorphism, one which liberates the animals back into organic wilderness.