ON LITERATURE AND ECOFEMINISM

A READING ON SARAH ORNE JEWETT'S "A WHITE HERON"

Autores

  • Ernani Silverio Hermes Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

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Sarah Orne Jewett, Ecofeminism, American Literature

Resumo

Sarah Orne Jewett is an American writer of the Nineteenth Century and is associated with American Realism. One of her most known works is the short story “A white heron”, published in 1886, which is about the relation of a girl and a hunter who are in search of a white heron. Given this context, I intend, in this essay, to analyze the literary narrative through the lens of ecofeminism. This theoretical perspective tries to interwoven the oppression of women, and other oppressed groups such as children, poor people, black people, and traditional people, and the exploitation of nature. To do so, this work undertakes an analytical path considering the resizing of the fictional figure towards its relation to nature represented in the diegesis. The theoretical framework is found, mainly, in Jytte Nhanege (2011), Chen Ling (2014), and Laila Fariha Zein and Adib Rifqi Setiawan (2017). Therefore, I realize that the relation erected between character and nature points out power relations and construction of hierarchies symbolizing oppression of women and destruction of nature by men. 

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Biografia do Autor

  • Ernani Silverio Hermes, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

    Mestrando em Letras – Estudos Literários, pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), bolsista da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), graduado em Letras – Inglês pela Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI). Pesquisa temáticas que envolvem literatura, memória, identidade e história.

Referências

HIGH, Peter B. An outline of American Literature. New York: Longman, 1986.

JEWETT, Sarah Orne. A White Heron and other stories. Blackmask Online, 2011. Available in: <http://public-library.uk/ebooks/105/91.pdf>. Accessed on April 22nd, 2021.

LING, Chen. The Background and Theoretical Origin of Ecofeminism. Cross-Cultural Communication. vol. 10, vo. 4, 2014, pp. 104-108. Available in: < Available in: <http://public-library.uk/ebooks/105/91.pdf>. Accessed on April 22nd, 2021. >. Accessed on April 22nd, 2021.

NHANENGE, Jytte. Ecofeminism: Towards integrating the concerns of women, poor people, and nature into development. Lanham, University Press of America, 2011.

ZEIN, Laila Fariha; SETIAWAN, Adib Rifqi. General Overview of Ecofeminism. LAxARS, vol. 01, no. August, pp. 1–10, 2017. Available in: < https://redox-college.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/kmc/2020/May/06/Qi3Wc9clGZWdfOvWRUdk.pdf>. Accessed on April 22nd, 2021.

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Publicado

17.10.2024

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ON LITERATURE AND ECOFEMINISM: A READING ON SARAH ORNE JEWETT’S "A WHITE HERON". (2024). Revista De Estudos Acadêmicos De Letras, 17(01), e6123. https://periodicos.unemat.br/index.php/reacl/article/view/6123