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- Title
Ecology Versus Materiality: An Ecocritical Reading of Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life.
- Authors
Tiwari, Kusha
- Abstract
This paper examines how nature is culturally inscribed and how there is no retreat into a tranquil pastoral landscape from the decadent human world through a study of Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life. In this novel, Gordimer explores how the moment of crisis (the protagonist's fatal illness) explicitly foregrounds what commonplace rhythms might conceal, namely, attachments to both places and people that are more and more deterritorialized in the contemporary age of global connectedness. The author here, interestingly, emphasizes the wrongness of any human claim over land as it equally belongs to all the beings living on the planet. Thus, the whole idea of land ownership and redistribution, closely associated with colonial, neocolonial, and postcolonial pursuits, is invalidated here. Globalization has led to economic growth and technological progress around the world, but it has also given rise to certain major environmental inconsistencies, especially in the developing nations. Thus, the paper examines the South African landscape as explored in Get a Life where the author propagates an understanding of nature as both a physical entity and a cultural construct, thereby debunking the notion of hierarchical human dominance.
- Subjects
ECOLOGY in literature; MATERIAL culture in literature; LAND tenure in literature; GLOBALIZATION in literature; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations in literature; GET a Life (Book : Gordimer); GORDIMER, Nadine, 1923-2014
- Publication
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2019, Vol 14, Issue 2, p42
- ISSN
0973-3728
- Publication type
Literary Criticism