Volume I Issue IV October 2021

Name of Author : G S Godwin Shiji & Dr. Manason

Title of the paper : Eco-Feminism in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour

Abstract: Literary eco-criticism is alarmed by the ways in which human-nature relationships are represented in literary writings regarding human relationships with each other and with their nature. Literature has rich ecological heritage because literary history has many works on romanticism, naturalism, transcendentalism, literature of landscape and frontier literature. Barbara Kingsolver’s recent novel Flight Behaviour set in Appalachia, is An excellent examples of fiction with characters who are influenced by the environment that has been changed by an oppressive, misogynistic, and consumptive lifestyle. To analyze the gendered responses to the land, this article analyzes Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior through an eco-feminist lens. Kingsolver explores the climate change and what are the developments are the cause of the changing climate which might have for Dellarobia and her homeland. Therefore this paper aims to portray how Kingsolver used women and nature in her novel Flight Behaviour.

Keywords : human relationship, nature, climatic change, environment

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Page No. : 66-68