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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).02 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).02 Published : Mar 2021Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women
This article explores the relationship between Native American lands/environment and the women from ecocritical /ecofeminist perspectives. It has been postulated that while the Euro- American accounts of the history, culture, indigenous women and their relation with nature/land project stereotypical, negative images, Louise Erdrich, through the employment of hybrid narrative techniques combining Eurocentric and Native American modes of narration, has reconfigured the Native American women's environmental identity/subjectivity. This study conducts discourse analysis of the two richly thematic environmental narratives of Louise Erdrich to establish the interconnectivity between women and lands within the realm of ecofeminism. The primary texts explored include Tracks and Love Medicine. The study's contribution is it's highlighting the significance of the Native American Ecofeminist narratives that consider environmental issues to be human issues and thus positively affect the human attitude towards nature.
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Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Land, Environment, Subjectivity
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(1) Mumtaz Ahmad
Assistant Professor/Principal, Government Guru Nanak Postgraduate College, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Amara Javed
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Woman University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Asim Aqeel
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities & Linguistics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Ahmad, M., Javed, A., & Aqeel, A. (2021). Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women. Global Regional Review, VI(I), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).02
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CHICAGO : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Amara Javed, and Asim Aqeel. 2021. "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women." Global Regional Review, VI (I): 8-16 doi: 10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).02
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HARVARD : AHMAD, M., JAVED, A. & AQEEL, A. 2021. Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women. Global Regional Review, VI, 8-16.
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MHRA : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Amara Javed, and Asim Aqeel. 2021. "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women." Global Regional Review, VI: 8-16
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MLA : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Amara Javed, and Asim Aqeel. "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women." Global Regional Review, VI.I (2021): 8-16 Print.
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OXFORD : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Javed, Amara, and Aqeel, Asim (2021), "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women", Global Regional Review, VI (I), 8-16
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TURABIAN : Ahmad, Mumtaz, Amara Javed, and Asim Aqeel. "Exploring the Interconnection between Native American Land/Environment and Women." Global Regional Review VI, no. I (2021): 8-16. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2021(VI-I).02