Baskı Objeleri: Toni Morrison’ın Katran Bebek Adlı Romanının Ekofeminist Bir Okuması

Abstract

Ecofeminism, formulated in the twentieth century, is a body of literature that seeks to identify the relationship between the oppression of nature and women. In this regard, the traditional roles of nature and women have been investigated in different social fields, such as literature, philosophy, and psychology. Although its historical roots date back to the 1980s, this approach was renamed in the 1990s, with current developments in different fields. As the theoretical background of this study, ecofeminism clarifies the conceptual links, especially in patriarchal societies, between nature and women, in terms of domination, oppression, colonialism, sexism, and racism. This study attempts to analyze Toni Morrison’s novel Tar Baby (1981) by applying principles and considerations of ecofeminism through male/female and human/nonhuman dichotomies. As one of the writers who are concerned with the environmentalist aspect of all stories, Morrison, in Tar Baby, declares the exploitation of nature to raise ecological awareness and wisdom as well as mark the fragmentation, displacement, and assimilation of women in a male-dominated world. This study confirms that there is a close link between the oppression of nature and oppression of women in male-dominated societies.