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Rooted especially in the North American literary tradition, ecocriticism studies the “relationship between physical space and literature.” As a constantly evolving literary theory, ecocriticism has expanded its scope to explore literatures from other countries around the world and bring into contact a wide variety of texts that have environmental orientation. As a result of this expansion out of national borders, concepts like local and global are in discussion especially in postcolonial literatures in which the identity formation plays a crucial role. This paper will discuss The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh and Through the Arc of Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita building on the argument of Ursula Heise in “Local rock and Global Plastic,” focusing on the concept of “deterritorialization” and compare these two literary texts from different geographical locations of the world and suggest that the deaths of literary characters like Fokir in Hungry Tide and Mane Pena in Rain Forest might be considered both as the indication of failure of the globalization project and preservation policies by utilizing the knowledge of the local people

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