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Cătălina Bălinișteanu-Furdu
Plant and Animal Metaphors
As Signs of Proto-Ecofeminism
1st Edition 2024. 180 pages. € 39,80.
ISBN
978-3-86628-832-4
In
the UK, ecocriticism or the green studies originate from the British
Romanticism of 1790s, rather than from the American transcendentalism of the
1840s, a fact reinforced by Lawrence Buell who mentioned the waves of
ecocriticism in his works and analysed its evolution
from a critical practice in the 1970s to the movement within the literary
studies from the 1990s having “two semi-coordinated and interpenetrating epicentres: the British Romanticism and the US nature
writing”. In the beginning, this movement was called environmental criticism,
or literary environmental studies, or literary ecology, or literary
environmentalism, or green literary studies; ultimately a convenient shortage
was acknowledged as the suitable name: ecocriticism. A simple definition of
ecocriticism would be the one offered by Lawrence Buell: “the study of the
relationship between literature and the physical environment”. Although ecocritical canon was still in its early stages when
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Out of Africa, Beatrix Potter’s Tales were
written, it is important for us to understand that ecocriticism has evolved in
different branches so that people should perceive better their connection to
nature. The understanding of natural landscapes offered by both Brontë Sisters in their works fits Buell’s definition.
However, Jane Eyre reveals a particular facet of ecocriticism: ecological
feminism, known also as ecofeminism; thus our survey on ecocriticism requires
broader parameters so that the readers might understand why the female writers
focus on the relationship between the female protagonists and nature.
Contents
An
Introduction to Women’s Animalities in the World
Literature
Chapter
I. Charlotte Brontë’s Proto-Ecofeminism in Jane Eyre
1.1.
Bird Imagery in Jane Eyre
1.2.
Animality with Diseased Women
1.3.
Jane’s Rejection of Instrumentalization
1.4.
Jane Eyre between Ecocriticism and Conservationism
1.5.
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter II. Karen Blixen’s Behind the Scenes
Ecofeminism
2.1.
The Woman and the Cultural Context
2.2.
The Representation of Kenya as a Utopian Land
2.3.
Congruity between Natives and the African Landscape
2.4.
Downplaying European Hegemony by Embracing Afrocentricity
2.5.
Animal Imagery as a Potential Sign of Ecofeminism
2.6.
Rejecting Anthropocentricity and Heading towards Ecofeminism
Bibliography
PART II. CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AS VEHICLE FOR
ECOFEMINISM
Chapter III. Beatrix Potter – An Ecofeminist Ahead of
Her Time
3.1.
Beatrix Potter: “a Woman who Escaped the Prison with the Help of a Rabbit” – a
Repressed Woman in a Restrictive Culture
3.2.
An Ecofeminist Reading to The Tale of Jemima the
Puddle-Duck
3.3.
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse – Ecopoetry in Action
3.4.
A Multimodal Analysis of The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse and The Tale of Jemima
Puddle-duck
3.5.
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter IV. Eco-poetics in Romania as a Form of
Dissent under the Communist Regime
4.1.
A Short History of the Totalitarian Communist Regime
4.2.
Ana Blandiana – a Fierce Representative of Resistance
Literature in Romania
4.3.
Ana Blandiana’s Children’s Literature – a Protest
against Communist Reality
4.4.a. Gendered Objectification of Plants/Animals
4.4.b. Arpagic – The Critique of the
Cult of Personality
4.4.c. Arpagic’s Poems – Possible Ecopoetry?
4.5.
Conclusions
Bibliography
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