Anthropocentric Ecologies and the "Ecological Native" in Native American, New Zealand Maori, and Aboriginal Taiwanese Literatures
- The present article analyzes a prominent yet relatively understudied contact space among Native American, New Zealand Maori, and aboriginal Taiwanese literatures: the struggle of indigenous peoples to negotiate optimal relationships between themselves and the natural world, particularly in light of capitalist modernity and globalization. Many indigenous narratives draw sharp distinctions between native peoples and outsiders, predictably portraying the former as protectors and the latter as destroyers of both nature and indigenous local cultures. The Native American Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan's (1947-) novel 'People of the Whale' (2008), the Maori writer Patricia Grace's (1937-) novel 'Patiki' (1986), and the aboriginal Taiwanese writer Topas Tamapima's short story "Zuihou de lieren" are no exception. But these texts also problematize notions of the so-called "ecological native." They do so most conspicuously by revealing the ambiguous relationships those peoples believed closest to nature have with the nonhuman world, that is to say their environmental ambiguity ('ecoambiguity') (Thornber 2012).
Author: | Karen Thornber |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-432717 |
ISSN: | 1432-5306 |
Parent Title (German): | Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
Publisher: | Synchron |
Place of publication: | Heidelberg |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/06/08 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Creating Corporation: | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
Release Date: | 2017/06/12 |
GND Keyword: | Ökologie; Indianer; Maori; Literatur; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Indigenes Volk; Taiwan |
Volume: | 2013 |
Page Number: | 10 |
First Page: | 31 |
Last Page: | 40 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 424629607 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren | |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte / BDSL-Klassifikation: 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte > 04.03.00 Vergleichende Literaturgeschichte |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Komparatistik : Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft ; 2013 |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-440759 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |