A postcolonial tale of nature : the postcolonial eco-poetics of jack london's the call of the wild
Other Title(s)
حكاية ما بعد استعمارية عن الطبيعة : الأدب البيئي ما بعد الاستعماري في رواية جاك لندن القصيرة المعنونة ب: "نداء البرية"
Author
Source
Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Issue
Vol. 2022, Issue 55 اللغات (30 Apr. 2022), pp.77-113, 37 p.
Publisher
South Valley University Qena Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2022-04-30
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
37
Main Subjects
Topics
- Human species
- Literature
- Literary analysis
- Text linguistics
- History and criticism
- Critical discourse analysis
Abstract EN
This paper is an attempt to map out the politics of postcolonial eco-poetics and its application to Jack London's novella, The Call of the Wild (1903).
As an interdisciplinary field, postcolonial eco-poetics emerges from the intersection of postcolonial literary theory with an ecological approach to colonialism and anthropocentrism.
Both theories put all forms of domination, oppression, hierarchy, and marginalisation into question to subvert any type of authority or hegemony over the "Other", whether human or non-human.
The emerging theory grasps the deep implication of ecology in postcolonial politics.
As a critical theory, it is a way of reading and rereading literary texts to create a critical discourse that radically decentres the centre, subverts binary oppositions, and gives hegemony to the marginalized nature.
Consequently, postcolonial eco-poetical discourse emerges as a reaction against the anthropocentric essentialist discourse with its exclusionary and hegemonic politics.
Anthropocentrism is one of the central modes of oppressive representation that believes in human beings as the only and the fixed centre of the cosmos.
Postcolonial eco-poetics, thus, establishes an ecological approach that challenges colonial oppression and injustice and meanwhile struggles against environmental and animal abuse.
The paper, thus, delineates four paradigms that characterise postcolonial eco-poetics: the mimic, the dialogic, the carnivalesque, and the nomadic.
These four paradigms are fully discussed as constituents of the literary theory of postcolonial eco-poetics.
This paper reads Jack London's The Call of the Wild (1903) as a manifestation of these paradigms.
It, thus, suggests that the theoretical perspective of postcolonial eco-poetics promises to offer a new interpretative scope for rereading literary texts.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Mustafa, Wail Mustafa al-Sawi. 2022. A postcolonial tale of nature : the postcolonial eco-poetics of jack london's the call of the wild. Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts،Vol. 2022, no. 55 اللغات, pp.77-113.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1390517
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Mustafa, Wail Mustafa al-Sawi. A postcolonial tale of nature : the postcolonial eco-poetics of jack london's the call of the wild. Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts No. 55 Languages (Apr. 2022), pp.77-113.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1390517
American Medical Association (AMA)
Mustafa, Wail Mustafa al-Sawi. A postcolonial tale of nature : the postcolonial eco-poetics of jack london's the call of the wild. Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts. 2022. Vol. 2022, no. 55 اللغات, pp.77-113.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1390517
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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BIM-1390517