RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in PSSR agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in PSSR retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of PSSR are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.
How to Cite
Ecofeminist Paradigm and South Asian Fiction: An Analysis
Abstract
This study pursues the analysis of chosen fiction of Khaled Hosseini and Amitav in the light of ecofeminism. The crux of ecofeminism expands on analogies between woman and nature, on the one hand, and the male and culture, on the other hand. Male generally naturalizes woman as a culture feminizes nature. With the space of technological development, the exploitation of nature has increased exceedingly as the male have been exploiting the female since centuries. Both male and culture discursively produce their second part of binaries that is female and nature to define themselves as the creator. In the pursuit of ecofeminist investigation various types of exploitation of nature and marginalization of a woman are traced. There are numerous significant results of this exploitation; the implications of the coercion are very deep rooted and work on various levels of life. As a result of this phenomenon, the female characters of these novels do intentionally take various measures to preserve nature. It is a significant study to acquaint the reader with the widespread environmental degradation and female oppression in South Asia
Authors
Nargis Saleem
Lecturer, Department of English, Riphah International University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Muhammad Saleem
Professor, Department of English, Govt, College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Umer Azim
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Township, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Culture and Patriarchy, Ecofeminism, South Asian Fiction
