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Cosmic Fragility, Earthly Responsibility: Reimagining Ecological Ethics in Richard Power’s Bewilderment

Author(s) Ms. S.Steffy, Dr. R.Dharani
Country India
Abstract Richard Powers’ Bewilderment (2021) intertwines intimate human grief with planetary crisis, situating ecological consciousness within the emotional bond between a father and son.
This research paper examines the novel from an ecocritical perspective, foregrounding how Powers dramatizes planetary fragility, ecological ethics, and political apathy through literary form.
Keywords Richard Powers, Bewilderment, ecocriticism, planetary ethics, ecological grief, eco- cosmopolitanism, dark ecology, Anthropocene
Field Arts
Published In Volume 6, Issue 5, September-October 2025
Published On 2025-09-11
DOI https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i05.1262
Short DOI https://doi.org/g93rnb

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