Browsing by Subject "ecocriticism"
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
(2017)This dissertation undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and ... -
The Organic Citizen: Reimagining Democratic Participation and Indigeneity in U.S. Late 19Th and 20Th Century Eco-Narratives
(2008-12-10)The Organic Citizen investigates an underlying environmentalist sensibility that links texts and discourses from varied realms and disciplines - Indian reform, environmental policy, social reform, ecology, sociology and ... -
Woman, Nature, and Observer in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and To the Lighthouse: An Ecofeminist Approach
(2017-09-19)This thesis discusses narration as a tool that mediates the portrayal of women and nature by subjecting both to the perspective of an observer. Realist fiction provides us with material to study this phenomenon in depth ...