ECOCRITICISM AND MAGICAL REALISM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA’S THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST

Nesrin YAVAŞ

Makale detayları

ECOCRITICISM AND MAGICAL REALISM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA’S THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST

Yazarlar:

Nesrin YAVAŞ

Yayıncı:

Rating Academy

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Journal of Awareness 2018 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

2/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000736916

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2149-6544

pISSN:

2149-6544

Özet:

 

In her
novel Through the Arc of the Rainforest (1990)
Karen Tei Yamashita deploys magical realist narrative technique to offer a
globally-embracing ecocritical criticism that unfolds global connectivity of
peoples, places, and their destinies. As such, she uses a deterritorialized
environmental approach, which favors eco-cosmopolitanism over bioregionalism,
drawing our attention to the shortcomings of locally-based ecocritical studies
that overlook the inextricable political, social, and cultural connections
between the local and the global in an age of unprecedented mobility and global
modernity. Another environmental issue Yamashati sheds light upon is the fact
of slow violence, a violence, as Rob Nixon argues, appears out of sight, and
over time. To render this invisible violence visible, she employs magical
realism. The intersection between magical realism and ecocriticism in Through the Arc fuels a representational void by
giving shape not only to the insidious workings of global capitalism
masquerading as “scientific development,” and/or “progress” but also to the
slow, invisible environmental violence whose long-term effects bring about
human and environmental cost. .

Makale detayları

ECOCRITICISM AND MAGICAL REALISM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA’S THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAINFOREST

Yazarlar: Nesrin YAVAŞ

Yayıncı: Rating Academy

Ana Başlıklar: Edebiyat

Dergi: Journal of Awareness 2018 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 2/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000736916

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 2149-6544

pISSN: 2149-6544

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Nesrin YAVAŞ

Yayıncı:

Rating Academy

Ana Başlıklar:

Edebiyat

Dergi:

Journal of Awareness 2018 Vol.3 Issue 1, pp.1-12

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

2/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000736916

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

2149-6544

pISSN:

2149-6544