Ecology, Gender and Cultural Ideology in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

Abstract

L’articolo offre una lettura ecocritica del primo romanzo di Doris Lessing The Grass is Singing (1950). La natura è un elemento imprescindibile che incontra e sostiene la necessità dell’autrice di affrontare concomitanti questioni migratorie, etniche, sessuali e di genere nonché, contestualmente, di richiamare a una presa di consapevolezza ambientale e politica. Oltre allo sfruttamento delle risorse naturali, i rapporti fra uomo e natura nel romanzo generano casi di crudeltà verso gli animali ed ecoansia. L’articolo analizza, inoltre, limiti e potenzialità dell’approccio ecofemminista in riferimento alla protagonista e ad altre categorie emarginate.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-249

Parole chiave: Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Race, Gender, Ecophobia.

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