AN ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE IN LOLLY WILLOWES OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN BY SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER AND HAPPINESS BY AMINATTA FORNA

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2024-7-12

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Şalvarcı, İrem Gülgün

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The conventional logic, which produces hierarchical dualisms, has long been an influential perspective on life. It is possible to see the impact of dualisms in every aspect of the modern world. The ways in which spaces are designed and the regulations about how one can interact with the space are one manifestation of the influence of dualisms on our lives. Binary thinking especially restricts the subordinated parties’ (e.g., women and non-humans) experience of space. It is possible to see the representations of these restrictions in literary texts. Hence, this study aims to produce a comparative analysis of Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman (1926) by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Happiness (2018) by Aminatta Forna through the lens of critical ecofeminism in order to explore how the effects of dualisms might be observed in these two novels, written about 90 years apart. Even though these works have previously been studied through a similar lens, they have not been examined comparatively or through a critical perspective focusing on the dualistic mentality remaining in ecofeminist approaches. The study concludes that even though dualisms change and evolve in time, their impact on especially women and nature continues; and, yet, as these novels attest to it, the ecofeminist problematization of these dualisms continues as well.

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Lolly Willowes or the Loving Huntsman, Happiness, Critical Ecofeminism, Space, Val Plumwood

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110118

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis