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Unbalanced World: An Eco-feminist Approach to A Thousand Acres
LIU Yuan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2020.04.003
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Jane Smiley is one of the most famous female novelists in the contemporary literary world. So far, she has published more than a dozen novels, and the most famous one is her novel A Thousand Acres published in 1991. A Thousand Acres received extensive attention once it was published and won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. At the same time, this work also laid the foundation of Jane Smiley in the contemporary American literary world. This novel mainly depicts the agricultural life of the American Midwest. In A Thousand Acres, Smiley combines ecological themes with feminist issues, which coincides with the theoretical pursuit of ecofeminism that emerged in the 20th century. From the perspective of ecofeminism, this paper interprets women’s struggle and revolt against nature under men’s control and suppression in a patriarchal society depicted in the novel. It also hopes to awaken people to realizethe supposedly harmonious relationship between them and nature, and between men and women.
ecofeminism, nature, female, unbalanced
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