This article examines Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019) as a literary response to the cultural condition of the Anthropocene, arguing that the novel stages climate change as an experience of the uncanny: the return of what modern rationality had repressed, in the form of myth, animal agency and bodily dread. Drawing on Freud’s account of the unheimlich, postcolonial ecocriticism and recent research on climate anxiety, the study shows how the legend of the Gun Merchant, the anomalous behaviour of snakes, spiders and dolphins, and the despairing journeys of migrants together unsettle the boundary between the familiar and the strange, the human and the nonhuman, the past and the present. The article contends that Ghosh converts climate anxiety from a private affect into a shared narrative problem, and that the novel’s mythic structure offers a provisional, if unsettled, way of imagining planetary dwelling.

Dr. Yuvraj Pandharinath Jadhav, "The Uncanny Anthropocene: Myth, Animals and Climate Anxiety in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island" International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Studies, V1(4): Page(93-98) September-October 2026. ISSN: 3139-0854. www.ijhssrs.com. Published by Scientific and Academic Research Publishing.