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Title Environmental Racism: A Critical Study of Linda Hogan’s Fiction”

Author(s) Sehrish Bibi

Abstract ABSTRACT This thesis is a critical study reflecting the insight of racism and environmental philosophy in Linda Hogan’s fiction. This study illustrates that the human beings and their non-human neighbors such as land, animals and plants are not separate; they are tied in a close relationship with one other. Environmental policies and their unjust enforcement disturb life of human beings by changing their environment. The primary purpose of this research is to delineate ways in which institutions of modernity (laws and policies) have participated in law-enforcement as well as taking control over environment and native communities. The overwhelming theme of the research is that the wave of creation and development results in the devastation of natural environment in the shape of deforestation, water pollution, land pollution and so on. Through the analysis of Linda Hogan’s fictional works, the researcher enlists several policies that harms both the Native Americans and their natural environment. These policies include relocation, zoning, road construction, dam construction, oil extraction, and war. Indigenous communities, as a marginalized group, suffer a lot due to land restriction and exploitation of their zones. They also encounter psychological trauma. Rapid industrial practices over the years have resulted in deforestation. As a consequence, many animal and plant species are swiftly becoming either extinct or endangered. This analysis reveals the treatment of human as “other”, treatment of nonhuman as “other,” and the response of “othering”. The issues that the researcher explores throughout this research are zoning and speciesism in relation to environmental racism.

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2019-11-21

Subject English Literature

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