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We are as much a place as a people: rewilding as an ecofeminist decolonizing process in global literatures
Guardiola, Mayra Alejandra,author.
Guardiola, Mayra Alejandra,author.
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2019
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In this study of literature spanning from the late 1800’s to the present day and across the world, I argue that a vital act of decolonization for communities of color is to rewild themselves, an act that aims to re-discover their sense of self in the natural world and in history. In pointing out the historical and material consequences of Eurocentric models of knowledge from an ecofeminist, post-colonial, and anti-white supremacist model, my thesis aims to make important historical connections between seemingly separate oppressive regimes through my analysis of Anonymous’ The Woman of Colour (1808), Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest (1969), N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), and Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek” (1994). This research joins the fields of ecocriticism, women of color feminisms, spatial theories, and decolonization studies. The works of Anonymous, Césaire, Momaday, and Cisneros elicit a social reassessment of the environment, feminisms, and decolonization, thus revealing how place and people are persistent preoccupations of decolonization.
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1 online resource (iii, 93 pages) :
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English