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Title Catechizing Gender, Nature, And Violence: An Anarcho-Ecofeminist Reading of Global South Fiction

Author(s) Muhammad Amir

Abstract This dissertation is an anarcho-ecofeminist reading of Global South fiction. It aims to explore the anomalies of gender, exploitation of nature, and praxis of violence in Global South fiction. This study is focused on three novels, Uzma Aslam Khan's Thinner than Skin (2012), J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), and Ana Castillo's So Far from God (1993). These works represent three Souths of the Globe including South Asia, South Africa, and South America respectively. In these works, located in three different cultures, the principal issues (concerning this research) of gender-discrimination, oppression of nature, and violence are interbraided. This study employs Murray Bookchin’s concept of ‘anarchy’ and Greta Gaard’s idea of ‘ecofeminism’ as reading props for the analysis of the selected texts. This investigation mainly argues that Global South fiction writers use their narratives in order to highlight the iniquities of gender, exploitation of nature, and practice of violence on the human and the nonhuman. They have a close link with their respective soils, ecosystems, people, and their problems. Therefore, they protest by holding out the issues mentioned above. That is why, they are read in line with anarcho-ecofeminist perspective. In accordance with qualitative methodology, I have used Catherine Belsey’s idea of ‘textual analysis’ and Celena Kusch’s concept of ‘comparative analysis’ as my research methods. Since this study intervenes in terms of focusing on three Global South texts, it also highlights parallels and differences between the conditions of gender- discrimination, oppression of nature, and perpetration of violence in three culturally different societies. This project is an effort towards contributing to the production of knowledge in the domains of anarchoechofeminist studies.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

Faculty Languages

Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2024-01-17

Subject PhD English Literature

Publisher Department of English (GS)

Contributor(s) Dr. Sibghatullah Khan

Format As per departmental guidelines

Identifier Dr. Muhammad Haseeb Nasir (PhD English Program Coordinator)

Source PhD

Relation PhD

Coverage PhD

Rights PhD

Category PhD English Literature Thesis

Description CATECHIZING GENDER, NATURE, AND VIOLENCE: AN ANARCHO-ECOFEMINIST READING OF GLOBAL SOUTH FICTION