Essays about: "postcolonial ecocriticism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words postcolonial ecocriticism.

  1. 1. Voice, Agency, and Urgency : Three Ecocritical Readings of Nature and the Protagonist in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Annika Salisbury; [2023]
    Keywords : Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ecocriticism; postcolonial ecocriticism; ecofeminism; climate change criticism; voice; agency; urgency.; Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ekokritik; postkolonial ekokritik; ekofeminism; klimatkritik; röst; agens; brådska.;

    Abstract : The female protagonist Catherine Danielle Clark (Kya) in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is abandoned by her family at a young age and grows up alone in a marshland environment in 1950s North Carolina. Shunned by the local community, Kya relies on nature to help her survive and to teach her about life and love—until one day she finds herself accused of murder. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Eden to Hell in the Space of a Few Seconds” : an ecocritical and postcolonial analysis of Alex Garland’s The Beach

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Hanna Strömberg; [2022]
    Keywords : The Beach; postcolonial ecocriticism; utopia; wilderness; pastoral;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes the cultural concepts of wilderness, utopia, and the pastoral in relation to The Beach from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. Evidently, the pastoral is critical in shaping the Western idea of wilderness, and the utopistic mindset plays an equally crucial role in wilderness gazing. READ MORE

  4. 3. Lord of the Rings, Lord of Nature : A postcolonial-ecocritical study of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and its implications in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Stefan Lobo Jansson; [2018]
    Keywords : Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Imperialism; Ecocriticism; Environmentalism; Pastoral; Nature; Wilderness; Development; Tolkien; The Lord of the Rings; The EFL Classroom.;

    Abstract : This essay examines J.R. READ MORE

  5. 4. Can the Nonhuman Speak? : A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Malin Moisander; [2017]
    Keywords : Postcolonial; Ecocriticism; Malouf; Remembering Babylon; Nonhuman; Pastoral; Environment;

    Abstract : This essay explores the representation of nonhuman nature in David Malouf’s postcolonial novel Remembering Babylon. By applying a postcolonial ecocritical framework to the narrative the essay shows how nonhuman nature, including the animalised human “other”, is subject to Western ideologies that see them as resources or services to be exploited. READ MORE

  6. 5. Blind Injustice : J. M. Coetzee and the Misapprehension of the Ecological Object

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tom Bradstreet; [2016]
    Keywords : J. M. Coetzee; Life Times of Michael K; ecocriticism; object-oriented ontology; postcolonial theory;

    Abstract : This thesis attempts to develop a concept of 'ecological misapprehension' by means of an object-oriented ecocritical analysis of several works by J. M. Coetzee. READ MORE