Ecological Collapse and Magical Deflation in Bacigalupi’s The Tangled Lands

Goldie D. B.
Research Scholar (Register number: 23213154012016),
Department of English, S. T. Hindu College, Nagercoil – 629 002,
(Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli – 627 012)
Email: goldiedb26@gmail.com

Dr. R. Senitha
Assistant Professor & Research Supervisor,
|Department of English, S. T. Hindu College, Nagercoil – 629 002,
(Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli – 627 012)
Email: senitha87@gmail.com

Abstract
Environmental sustainability is maintained in the ecological world with difference in opinion to communal distribution of people. The magical usage in a cultural background denotes the unique identity created in a minimalized society. This contributes to a disastrous pathway targeting the notions of greater ecological collapse. The Tangled Lands is a dark fantasy co-authored by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. The ecological collapse occurs due to the unstable mental abilities of people as they are targeted towards black magic. The primary idea of the author is to showcase the inner thought of individuals and their surroundings to make appropriate environmental space. This paper brings out the concept of magic as a tool of destruction which advocates Neo-paganism where nature is the cause and belief of worship without assimilating to cultural norms. Eco-magical realism is a technical theory in literature employed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This theory could be intertwined with the concept of ecological collapse as the phenomena which reveals false beliefs that cannot be accepted. The message aimed at guiding the community is the concept of magic as a cultural practice which demolishes the valid purpose of education with nature. The collapse of environmental wealth could be regained through the worship of nature without artificial techno advancement.

Keywords: Minimalized society, Black magic, Neo-paganism, Eco-magical realism, Environmental wealth.