النقد الأدبي البيئي : قراءة في مدونة الدراسات العربية البيئية، و ممارسة تطبيقية على قصة "رأيت النخل" لرضوى عاشور

Abstract EN

This paper aims to establish the origin of ecocriticism, a recent criticism whose actual beginnings were in the nineties of the last century; it is concerned with scrutinizing the representation of the environment, and the natural system in literature.

In addition to defining the characteristics of the environmental text, establishing the origin of ecocriticism has revealed the features of ecocriticism, its specificities, its fields of study, and challenges facing it.

Then, a bibliographic study of a sample of Arabic ecocritical studies is presented, and it is followed by an analysis where the most significant problems of this criticism are identified.

As for application, the environmental vision in Radwa Ashour's short story “I Saw Date Palms” is analyzed.

In addition, the paper attempts to answer the following questions: How are environmental issues represented in the short story? How is the environment reflected on the self, and to what extent does the self-interact with the natural system? How is the environment presented aesthetically? The paper has concluded that ecocriticism undertakes an important role in giving rise to the environmental awareness, and ethical obligation towards the environmental issues.

Furthermore, the short story has succeeded in unearthing cultural attitudes, and social issues that have precluded the author's dream of having a green city because humans' hegemony over the environment has increased, and values opposing to its system have prevailed.