Date of Award
Spring 2023
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
English Language and Literatures
First Advisor
Catherine Keyser
Abstract
“Nature as Culture: Ecofeminist Narratives of Environmental and Colonial History” is a cross-cultural, comparative, feminist investigation of two films, The Nightingale and Wolfwalkers, and two books, The Giving Tree and The Overstory. The narratives are analyzed through a combination of ecofeminism and decolonial feminism, revealing the four narratives’ investment in the effects of colonization on the environment. The two chapters explore the association of women with nature, traditionally used as a subordinating position, instead as a condition of empathetic understanding with both the colonized and the environment. Further, these narratives use the association of women with nature as an empowering angle, one from which we may address global climate change through a multi-faceted, collective approach.
Rights
© 2023, Sydney Leimbach
Recommended Citation
Leimbach, S.(2023). Nature as Culture: Ecofeminist Narratives of Environmental and Colonial History. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/7170