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Exploring Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

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dc.contributor.author Any, Jakiya Sultana
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-08T08:08:37Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-08T08:08:37Z
dc.date.issued 6/20/2016
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/handle/2525/2005
dc.description This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper examines postcolonial ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye. Nowadays, ecofeminism is considered as one of the major disciplines in literature due to its active association of bridging the gender and environment conspicuously in ideological terms. The ecological crisis due to the massive environmental destruction and the oppression of women in male dominated society adjoin the fact that race, class, caste and gender are intrinsically interconnected. In this context, this paper explores how the concept of ecofeminism forms the ideologies of postcolonial regions, specially South Asian and African-American spheres. Rukmani, in Nectar in a Sieve represents an ordinary feature of a South Asian rural woman, who maintains an outstanding bond with nature, ultimately turns into the victim of the postcolonial industrialization. On the other hand, Pecola in The Bluest Eye, is the victim of racial discrimination in the American society. Therefore, this paper takes an ecofeminist approach to highlight women identity crisis and seeks to outline how nature is degraded by humans and women are oppressed by men. This paper also presents a comparative analysis between the ecofeminist features of these two novels and shows how the identities of the protagonists are shaped in the postcolonial capitalistic grounds. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries ;ENG00135
dc.subject Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye en_US
dc.title Exploring Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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