TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF ECOFEMINIST THEORY IN PRODIGAL SUMMER BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER AND THE WOLF BORDER BY SARAH HALL

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2024-7-04

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Durak, Pelin

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This thesis aims to compare Prodigal Summer (2000) by Barbara Kingsolver with The Wolf Border (2015) by Sarah Hall regarding the ways in which they are informed by the changing understanding of dualisms in ecofeminist approaches. This study explores how the fictional treatment of some similar subject matter such as women’s relationship with nature, ecofeminist spirituality and ecofeminist activism have changed over time in parallel with the changes in ecofeminist theory. Even though these two novels have been analysed separately so far from ecofeminist perspectives mostly to trace how they deal with the interaction between woman and nature, they have not been studied comparatively before in relation to the question of how they tackle the dualistic thinking. This thesis argues that while some essentialist and dualistic mindset can be traced in Prodigal Summer, displaying ideas from some earlier discussions in ecofeminist theory, The Wolf Border surpasses these dualisms, adopting a more fluid understanding in this aspect.

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Ecofeminism, Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Hall, Prodigal Summer, The Wolf Border

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110095

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis