Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
. | Hutner, Heidi | Videbaek, Bente
Date
2010-12-01
Keywords
Literature
Department
Department of English
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/70983
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis explores the work of Alice Walker from an ecofeminist perspective in order to demonstrate the connections between black women and the environment. Walker offers a spiritual revisioning that embraces nature while challenging the doctrines of patriarchy and Christianity, and the social justifications that support male and Christian hegemony. Through poetry, literature, and essays, she critiques the cultural and social practices of systems used toenforce dominance over black women and nature. She attempts to dismantle hierarchical relationships that subjugate the position of women and the environment and that deprive both of spirituality and reverence.
Recommended Citation
Esposito, Lauren, "A Spiritual Revisioning: Alice Walker from an Ecofeminist Perspective" (2010). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 191.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/191