Article
Ecofeminism in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure
AWEJ for translation & Literacy Studies
(2017)
Abstract
Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) isafantasy novel with focus on nature. Lessing portrays a world in which oppression by a male-dominated society is at the root of countless problems. It depicts the effects of global warming in the future emphasizing that the domination of women is the core of all crises in the environment.The novel implies that women are able to lead as most of the female characters in the novel play the role of the leader starting from Daima, the woman who protects Mara and Dann as children, to Orphne the woman who heals Dann from addiction. Applying Greta Claire Gaard’s(1993) principles of ecofeminism to literature classifies and justifies the cause of the movement (p. 20). This paper sheds light on Gaard’s four types of ecofeminism in Lessing’s Rama and Dann: An Adventure: liberal, culture, social and socialist by discussing the apocalypses, patriarchal legacy, pathetic fallacy and radical orthodoxies as features of ecofeminism
Keywords
- apocalypses,
- ecofeminism,
- pathetic fallacy,
- patriarchal legacy,
- radical orthodoxies
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer August 15, 2017
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol1no3.6
Citation Information
Najla R. Aldeeb. "Ecofeminism in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure" AWEJ for translation & Literacy Studies Vol. 1 Iss. 3 (2017) p. 78 - 85 ISSN: 2550-1542 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/awejfortranslation-literarystudies/27/