Ecology, Gender and Cultural Ideology in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing
Abstract
The article reads Doris Lessing’s debut novel The Grass is Singing (1950) through an ecocritical lens. Nature is a fundamental feature of the book, serving Lessing’s agenda to address interconnected issues of migration, race, gender, and sexuality while raising environmental and political awareness. Besides the exploitation of natural resources, human-nature relationships lead to instances of animal cruelty and eco-anxiety. The article further discusses the limits and potentialities of the ecofeminist approach in the case of the female protagonist and other marginalised categories.
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