The Beauty of ‘Becomings’ in Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Abstract

Science fiction proves to be the best platform to talk about the concept of ‘becoming’. With the presence of an ‘Other’, the ‘Self’ finds itself in a position to negotiate the process of identity formation. The alarm for environmental crisis is blaring in the present times and it becomes inevitable to examine the place or situatedness of humans in this vast earth. The present era is identified as Post-Anthropocene, where humans strive to establish a symbiotic relationship, a kind of mutualism with the environment with both the human and nonhuman forms. Becky Chambers ouvre explore this symbiotic relationship between the human and the Other. Her novels show how various life forms imbibe the art of becoming. This paper is an attempt to read Becky Chambers’ A Psalm for the Wild-Built through the theoretical framework of becoming as postulated by Deleuze and Felixand Guattari.