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An Ecofeminist Homology as Reflected in Salwa Bakr's Thirty-One Beautiful Green Trees and Han Kang's The Vegetarian : A Comparative Study

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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      This paper intends to illustrate the close similarities between Salwa Bakr's short story Thirty-One Beautiful Green Trees (1986) and Han Kang's novel The Vegetarian (2007) through the lens of the ecofeminism theory as a comparative study that has not been attempted so far.  Ecofeminism is a theory that mainly linked the oppression of women and nature. Both of them are exploited under the patriarchal culture of the Egyptian and the South Korean societies as it will be depicted in the present paper. Bakr's Thirty-One Beautiful Green Trees tackles social ecofeminism that portrays the colonization of women's identity and body as well as nature. While Kang's The Vegetarian handles vegetarian ecofeminism that rejects the idea of dealing harshly with women and animals as objects that have no rights. Both of these works explore the spiritual side that the protagonists adhere to and their psychological suffering.

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10.21608/jfab.2020.150163

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ecofeminism, SalwaBakr, Han Kang, culture, oppression, social ecofeminism, vegetarian ecofeminism, spirituality

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Eman Mohamed Mohamed

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AL Bayomy

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Department of English The Higher Institute of languages and Translation, in Mansoura

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54

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الجزء الثاني (اللغات)

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21779

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2020-10-01

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2020-10-20

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2020-10-01

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53

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84

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1687-2525

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مجلة کلية الآداب.بنها

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22 Jan 2023