Eco- Spiritual and Eco-Masculinity: Identity in Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman

Abstract

: “All ecological criticism shares the fundamental premise that human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it” mentioned Cheryll Glotfelty. Perumal Murugan, denoted by this text, that the (One Part Woman) focussed on the nature and its helps to humans to cope up with their own emotions. The Nature is meant & personified with the humans, emotions and as eternal truth. The Research explores the novel, (One Part Women) from the Ecocritical and Eco Masculine perception and its dynamics as text proven that the humans, flora & fauna should coexists, and that signified the cultural identity by its massive utilization of the symbolic representation from the nature. Perumal Murugan in (One Part Woman) has proved to be a brilliant writer mastering over the oral narrative technique or in other words storytelling process. One Part Woman portrays the cultural beliefs adopted by people of Tiruchengode as suggested in the paper - Kali’s ancestral belief and history, Storytelling and belief system, Ponna and her belief and wall belief that the people followed is direct illustration of how Perumal Murugan valorized of Cultural Identity through belief system in One Part Woman. The major objective of the article is to analyse and re-vision the term ‘Eco Masculinity’ and its application with the text One Part Woman.