@article{2017,title={ECOLOGICAL OTHERNESS OF THE HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN BEINGS IN INDRA SINHA’S ANIMAL’S PEOPLE},abstractNode={Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007), as a strong example of transnational environmental writings, offers an imaginary re-working of the Bhopal disaster that occurred in 1984 in India. It depicts the aftermath of the chemical disaster in Khaufpur/Bhopal through fictitious tape recordings by the protagonist Animal. Set in a considerably destructed postcolonial environment, the novel enables merging postcolonial and ecocritical approaches in order to examine ecological consequences of environmental disasters on human and non-human beings. On the human level, this study scrutinizes the ecological alienation of the Khaufpuris by their transformation into toxic bodies due to the high level of chemical leakage in Khaufpur. On the non-human level, the study particularly analyses the irreparable impacts of the chemical disasters upon the environment by taking into account the harm to the non-human beings such as air, water, soil, flora and fauna that struggle to survive in a poisoned environment. Postcolonial ecocriticism, which has been a hybrid discourse since the 2000s, argues that this multi-level destruction considerably results from the human/nonhuman divide that underpins discriminatory approaches towards disadvantaged groups and their environments. The main objective of this study is to reveal ecological otherness of the human and non-human beings in a postcolonial environment through a postcolonial ecocritical analysis of Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People.},author={Yeşim İPEKÇİ},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}