Vandana Shiva and Gayatri Chakravorty explore the theories of Ecofeminist Resistance in Subaltern Earth: Silenced Voices in Postcolonial Women's Literature
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Subaltern, Ecofeminism, Postcolonial Literature, Environmental Resistance, Silenced Voices, Indigenous Women, Land, Voice, Embodiment, Memory, Decolonian EcologyAbstract
This paper analyses the connection between ecofeminism and postcolonial theory by examining subaltern environmental resistance in postmodern women's literature. Exploring literary representations of ecological violence and gendered marginalization, it challenges the ties between land, voice, and agency as explored by Vandana Shiva and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Shiva's ecofeminism at the grassroots highlights indigenous knowledge and women' s interdependence with nature, while Spivak'er denounces the oppressive conditions placed on the subaltern. Through the analysis of literary works by postcolonial women writers, such as Linda Hogan's Solar Storms, Bessie Head' Whenever You See It, and Arundhati Roy'S The God Of Small Things, this paper examines how ecofeminist resistance can be used to recover land, identity, and forgotten histories. Through the intersection of two theoretical trajectories, this article presents the idea of the "Subaltern Earth" as a space for both resistance and recall, where women's ecological and cultural voices challenge colonial-capitalist remnants.
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