Ecocriticism and ecofeminism

Ecocriticism

&

Ecofeminism

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♣️ Ecocriticism :-

Ecocriticism is the study of literature and the environment from interdisciplinary point of view. Where literature scholars analyse text that literature environmental concern and examine the various way literature trades the subject of nature .

                 Ecocriticism is a term used for the observation and study of the relationship between the literature and Earth's environment . Cheryll Glotfelty's working definition in the Ecocriticism readers is that," Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment ", and one of the implicit goal of the approach is to recoup professional dignity for what Glotfelty call the " undervalued genre of nature writing ".
Lawrence Buell define " ecocriticism'...... as a study of the relationship between literature and the environment conducted in a spirit of commitment to environmentalist praxis".

♣️ Ecofeminism :-

                 

                            Ecofeminism depicts moment and philosophies that link feminism with ecology.  It is believed that the term was coined by the the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in her book, "Le Feminisme ou la Mort" (1974). Ecofeminism connects the exploitation and domination of women to the environment, and argues that there is a connection between human and nature . Ecofeminist believed that his connection is illustrated through the traditionally 'female' values of reciprocity, nurturing and cooperations which are are present both among women and in nature . Additionally, ecofeminist draw connections between menstruation and moon cycles, childbirth and creation etc. Ecofeminism is an interdisciplinary movement that call for a new way of thinking about nature, politics and spirituality. Ecofeminist theory questions for projects previously held patriarchal paradigms and hold that the domination of women by men is intimately linked to the destruction of the environment .