AWEJ for translation & Literacy Studies Volume, 1 Number 3, August 2017 Pp.78-85
Language Center, Batterjee Medical College
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann: An Adventure (1999) is a fantasy novel with focus on nature. Lessing portrays a world in which oppression by a male-dominated society is at the root of countless problems. It depicts the effects of global warming in the future emphasizing that the domination of women is the core of all crises in the environment. The novel implies that women are able to lead as most of the female characters in the novel play the role of the leader starting from Daima, the woman who protects Mara and Dann as children, to Orphne the woman who heals Dann from addiction. Applying Greta Claire Gaard’s (1993) principles of ecofeminism to literature classifies and justifies the cause of the movement (p. 20). This paper sheds light on Gaard’s four types of ecofeminism in Lessing’s Rama and Dann: An Adventure: liberal, culture, social and socialist by discussing the apocalypses, patriarchal legacy, pathetic fallacy and radical orthodoxies as features of ecofeminism.
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Najlaa Aldeeb is an English Language Lecturer and researcher. She works for Batterjee Medical College. She has twenty years of experience in teaching ESL. Ms. Najla has an MA in English Literature and an MSc in Translation Studies. She is a DELTA holder. Her research interests include college academic writing, Feminist literary criticism and translation studies. She has participated in national and international conferences. Her last paper was presented in 21st International Conference on Learning, New York, USA.