Introduction Wholeness, connectivity, dynamism, and interrelation are the elements on which we should build up a meaningful discourse of the relationship between the human world and the non-human world in postmodern times if we want to face the modern ecological crisis of disintegration, utter textuality, and dualism. The world is a network” of agencies says Jane Bennet in her book “dense Vibrant Matter (qtd. in Iovino and Oppermann ). Charlene Spretnak, a philosopher, in her book The States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age invites us to think beyond the nihilistic vision of deconstructive postmodernism to encompass a more innovative and holistic view in order to maintain a dynamic intermingling relation with the world of the non-humans. Similarly, Serpil Oppermann in her Ecocriticism in an Ecological “Rethinking Postmodern Framework: Mangled Matter, Meaning, and Agency” emphasises the necessity for an ecocentric postmodern vision which reconstructs the relationship between man and nature on the basis of new values of creativity and aliveness (9). Life of Pi by Yann Martel embraces such a new reconstructive ecocritical vision which responds to the pressing demands for the ecologisation of postmodernism, answering the calls for and aliveness’. Werner Wolf, ‘creativity a literary critic argues that Life of Pi is a reaction against postmodern
Introduction Wholeness, connectivity, dynamism, and interrelation are the elements on which we should build up a meaningful discourse of the relationship between the human world and the non-human world in postmodern times if we want to face the modern ecological crisis of disintegration, utter textuality, and dualism. The world is a “dense network” of agencies says Jane Bennet in her book Vibrant Matter (qtd. in Iovino and Oppermann ). Charlene Spretnak, a philosopher, in her book The States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age invites us to think beyond the nihilistic vision of deconstructive postmodernism to encompass a more innovative and holistic view in order to maintain a dynamic intermingling relation with the world of the non-humans. Similarly, Serpil Oppermann in her “Rethinking Ecocriticism in an Ecological Postmodern Framework: Mangled Matter, Meaning, and Agency” emphasises the necessity for an ecocentric postmodern vision which reconstructs the relationship between man and nature on the basis of new values of creativity and aliveness (9). Life of Pi by Yann Martel embraces such a new reconstructive ecocritical vision which responds to the pressing demands for the ecologisation of postmodernism, answering the calls for ‘creativity and aliveness’. Werner Wolf, a literary critic argues that Life of Pi is a reaction against postmodern
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