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Item ‘ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT – IDENTITY FORMATION IN UMA PARAMESWARAN’S MANGOES ON THE MAPLE TREE.’(Dept of English PSGR Krishnammal College, 2014-01) S, LavanyaThe paper proposes to apply Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development to analyze the confusions related to identity creation and formation of enduring relationships among young adults. Uma Parameswaran is a Canadian writer of the Indian diaspora. The novel Mangoes on the Maple Tree portrays the personal and social travails faced by second generation Indo-Canadians in the process of identity creation. The novel provides an in depth psychological study of youngsters as they cross the adolescent stage and become young adults. Uma Parameswaran is a Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She published SACLIT An Introduction to South Asian Canadian Literature in 1996. The work contains a collection of essays written between 1982- 1992 and focuses on the South Asian diaspora in Canada. The ethical constrain between two cultural constructs causes highest degree of sensitivity in the formation of human relationship. Erickson’s theory describes the impact of social experience in the development of personality.Item ECO – MARXIST READING OF MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S IN THE SKIN OF A LION(Dept of English PSGR Krishnammal College, 2013) S, LavanyaEco criticism the latest contemporary literary hermeneutics has assimilated into its trajectory Marxist literary and cultural criticism. The industrial revolution let to the capitalist movement wherein nature and human life is regulated by political control. Environment and the proletariat are exploited by the capitalist mode of production and have been brutally destructed by the authoritative regime which considers environment and human life from a utilitarian and materialistic perspective. In the political modernity “bios’ – environment and ecology is the core of capitalist mode of regulation which becomes key categories of political economy. Environmental crisis arises due to amassing of the green regime- the sustainable energy that vitalizes planetary life. Michael Ondatjee’s In the Skin of a Lion is a historical, literary and cultural text when dealt with a rigorous eco- Marxist analysis reveals the bio-political history of capitalism. Eco criticism deals with the problem that human beings encounter in relation to the environment or milieu in which they live; the environment could be natural or artificial – a city which is constructed by destroying the natural ecosystem. The novel historicizes the creation and development of the city of Toronto in 1920’s. The city comes into being after the destruction of the forest ecosystem, loss of life of the anonymous poor immigrant laborers who are employed in the construction of the landmarks of Toronto city. Thematically the novel is categorized Postcolonial and structurally as postmodern. This paper attempts to bring ecological concerns and immigrant’s status as outsiders under a common platform.