Journal of critical reviews 818 Journal of Critical Reviews ISSN- 2394-5125 Vol 7, Issue 8, 2020 CORONA TO KRISHNA: CREATING AN AMBIENT ECOLOGY FOR POST-CORONA THIRD-WORLD LITERATURE (SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SANKARDEV’s ADI-DASAM AND JAGANNATH DAS’s ODIA BHAGABATA) Rudranarayan Mohapatra 1 , Ambeswar Gogoi 2 , B. D. Nisha 3 1 P.G. Department of Odia, Utkal University, Vanivihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 2,3 Department of Assamese, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam Received: 02.05.2020 Revised: 01.06.2020 Accepted: 25.06.2020 Abstract William Rueckert's first essay, "Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism (1978)" to till date, Eco-criticism has emerged as a prominent theory in the field of literary criticism and the result of growing concern about environment in literary aspects. And in last forty years, the contemporary Wave models ecocriticism are trying to redefine the discipline as the transnational, multicultural, interdisciplinary and pluriform. Its rhizomatic path comments it as ‘a diversity of voices’. As the non-central, dominant doctrine or theoretical apparatus Ecocriticism, from its inception to date of future, i.e. the post-Corona, a cyclic transformation in its study have happened as the relationship between literature and the physical world to the study of the relationship between the literature and cosmic Universe. In changing nature of physical world to Cosmic Universe, the Ecocriticism rejecting its traditional theoretical concept, has raise the moral questions about human interactions not with nature but with Universe; therefore is adopting more complex metaphor, 'Krishna' than the present literary fantasy, 'Corona'. Here in this paper, taking a step further the study of ecocriticism to sixth wave, we are trying to establish that the literary sphere is continuously developing its ambient ecological and eco-cultural sphere for future in-born literature. For this, we have adopted here the descriptive and analytical method, and taking examples from Assamese and Odia literature proved here that how Sankerdev, and Atibadi Jagannath Das has already made the ambient eco-cultural sphere through their literature and their time with adopting more deeper metaphor, 'Krishna'. Therefore, the 'Corona' as metaphor in third-world in- born literature no doubt will reshape the contemporary materialistic eco-culture to Universal cosmic eco-culture. Keywords --- Ecocriticism, Corona, Krishna, Sankardev, Atibadi Jagannath Das, Ambient eco-culture, sixth wave of ecocriticism, Universal consciousness © 2020 by Advance Scientific Research. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31838/jcr.07.08.175 INTRODUCTION William Rueckert’s coining term ‘Ecocriticism’ (1978) in last forty years has gone through many wave models and gained popularity and developed as a separate discipline in academic spheres. In 1992 at the annual meeting of Western Literature Association, a new Association for the study of Literature and Ecology (ASLE) was formed, with Scott Solvic elected first president. In 1993 ASLE established a journal, ISLE: Inter- disciplinary Studies in Literature and environment (Goltfelty, xviii). Through ASLE and ISLE, ecocriticism started spreading very fast in western countries. The critics have adopted or accepted the 'wave model' of ecocritical development have marked Four waves up to now, with an addition of fifth one as the ‘New International Voices in ecocriticism’(1) From its inception to till date i.e.up to the year 2020, the discipline has taken a rhizomatic path with multiple theoretical methods and highlighting the intersections between material ecocriticism and post-humanism. The first wave of ecocriticism dealt mainly with nature writing, wilderness, Anglo-American nonfiction and discursive eco-feminism. The second wave turned its attention to other literary genres and media, environmental justice and urban ecology (Buell, 22) and acknowledgement of environmental justice and postcolonial concerns. The comparative and self critical characteristics of the third wave explore all facets of human experience from an environmental viewpoint and recognize ethnic and national particularities. Whereas the fourth wave emerging as the discourses of materiality in this global era encompasses itself to encompassing basic human behaviors and lifestyle choices, trans-corporeality and the new call to human- nature co-extensiveness and stressed upon Ongoing multiculturalism and Environmentalism of the poor. However, from the year 2012 to till date, some newer voices of American ecocriticism (Stacy Alaimo, Rob Nixon, SerenellaLovino) are focusing on developing streams of thought with gothic ecocriticism, affective ecocriticism, post-local ecocriticism and environmental expression till the date of Pre-Corona. POST-CORONA ECOCRITICISM: UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF ECOCRITICISM The transition of ecocriticism into a field of transnational environmental horizons is still an ongoing process; and it entangled the relationships between socio-cultural practices both in local and global ecosystems, especially human-nonhuman relationships. Here our discussion is with prospective ecocritical sphere of Post-Corona world literature. In our way, the literary consciousness sphere of ‘Burn-in literature’ in our way will follow the path of Krishna, the supreme consciousness and takes far mile of ecological sphere to ‘Universal ecosystems’ than to global or post local ecosystems. Where, the Corona pandemic deals with a worldwide pandemic - a flu-like illness - that begins in the Far East but then spreads around the world with a message of social/physical distancing and is inspiring for virtual ecological sphere in every part of human activity from health to education, livelihood to living level. Therefore, here we want to re-quote the words of US journalist Lawrence Wright that he told to Jonathan Marcus, the diplomat correspondence that "I think this crisis is a great opportunity for a civilization reset."(2) Taking this opportunity, here we have open here the trend of critic even before the creation of literature. For this ‘Krishna’ only the mythic symbol as ‘Universal Consciousness’ only be able to develop an ambient Ecology for Post-Corona world literature.