This book initiates a dialogue between two discursive fields of study, the Anthropocene and the Subaltern Studies.

It highlights communities that bear the brunt of climate precarity and planetary crises and examines critiques of the Anthropocene discourse for grossly overlooking the subaltern communities and failing to integrate their historiography. The essays in the volume retrieve and amplify voices of subaltern communities amid planetary crises, especially in India, to set up new paradigms to engage and tackle the climate crises that confront our times.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, literary criticism, especially ecocriticism, and environmental studies and climate action.

Somasree Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal, India. She has completed her PhD from the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Her areas of research interest include Environmental Humanities, Climate Fiction, Subaltern Studies and South Asian Literature. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, South Asian Review, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes published by internationally reputed publishing houses.

Agnibha Maity is a faculty member of English at Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri, and a PhD Candidate at the Department of English, University of North Bengal. Previously, he served as a UGC Senior Research Fellow at the University of North Bengal. He obtained his M.A. and B.A. from the University of Calcutta. His research interests are in Subaltern Studies, Planetary Studies, and Ecopoetics.