Abstract:This article studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy's travel essay "Walking with the Comrades" (2010). Roy's narrative of her journey across the dense forests of Bastar in east-central India re-articulates the significance of this contested environmental space from the perspective of the region's indigenous minorities. Traveling with a troop of indigenous rebels hail… Show more
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