@article{article_1757247, title={Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms}, journal={Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={24}, pages={1595–1608}, year={2025}, DOI={10.21547/jss.1757247}, author={Tatar, Selçuk}, keywords={Postkolonyalizm, Ekofeminizm, Yerli Kadınlar, Çevresel Yıkım, Linda Hogan, Solar Storms, Ekolojik Bilgelik, Sömürgecilik}, abstract={Adopting a postcolonial ecofeminist framework, this paper explores Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms (1995), which makes a significant contribution to Native American literature, to investigate the intersections of environmental exploitation, Indigenous resistance, and women’s agency, while highlighting the novel’s recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems, its narration of collective trauma and healing, and its articulation of the intricate relationship between women and nature. First of all, this article examines the theoretical background of postcolonial theory and ecofeminist approaches that rely on the views of various thinkers and scholars in the relevant literature. Thus, it provides a rich background for the analysis of the novel. The novel’s political critique of colonialism and its legacy forms of domination, as well as the combined exploitation of land, animals, and Indigenous communities, especially women, are discussed in the context of ecological destruction and the strategies of resistance developed by native peoples against such destruction. Hogan offers the resistance practices that these communities have adopted against Eurocentric, anthropocentric, and patriarchal ideologies through the preservation of ecological wisdom, collective solidarity, and cultural healing processes. Furthermore, this study analyses how the novel, which is based on historical events such as the James Bay hydroelectric project, situates female characters such as Angel, Bush, and Dora-Rouge in the context of environmental activism, cultural resistance and feminist struggle. In conclusion, this work aims to prove that Solar Storms can be interpreted through a postcolonial ecofeminist lens in terms of its exposure of the interconnections between environmental degradation, cultural erosion, and the marginalization of Native American women, as well as its affirmation of Indigenous ecological knowledge and resistance to anthropocentric colonial structures.}, number={4}, publisher={Gaziantep Üniversitesi}