Sökning: "postcolonial ecocriticism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden postcolonial ecocriticism.

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

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Annika Salisbury; [2023]
    Nyckelord :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.;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Författare :Hanna Strömberg; [2022]
    Nyckelord :The Beach; postcolonial ecocriticism; utopia; wilderness; pastoral;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Det särskildas platser - om etisk-politisk lokalitet och bioregionala visioner i Gary Snyders tänkande

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Författare :Viktor Andersson; [2018-07-06]
    Nyckelord :Gary Snyder; place; region; locality; historiography; ethics; particularity; dialectics; ecocriticism;

    Sammanfattning : In Gary Snyder’s philosophical essays, questions of place, region, and being inhabitory are closely linked to ethical, political and ecological themes. Where these themes intersect, tensions generate – to the extent of which too little attention might have been paid. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 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

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

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

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines J.R. LÄS MER

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Malin Moisander; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Postcolonial; Ecocriticism; Malouf; Remembering Babylon; Nonhuman; Pastoral; Environment;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER