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Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

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Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

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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.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Edebiyat Sosyolojisi

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Ekim 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

2 Ağustos 2025

Kabul Tarihi

12 Ekim 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 24 Sayı: 4

Kaynak Göster

APA
Tatar, S. (2025). Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 24(4), 1595-1608. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1757247
AMA
1.Tatar S. Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. GAUN-JSS. 2025;24(4):1595-1608. doi:10.21547/jss.1757247
Chicago
Tatar, Selçuk. 2025. “Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 (4): 1595-1608. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1757247.
EndNote
Tatar S (01 Ekim 2025) Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24 4 1595–1608.
IEEE
[1]S. Tatar, “Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”, GAUN-JSS, c. 24, sy 4, ss. 1595–1608, Eki. 2025, doi: 10.21547/jss.1757247.
ISNAD
Tatar, Selçuk. “Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 24/4 (01 Ekim 2025): 1595-1608. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.1757247.
JAMA
1.Tatar S. Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. GAUN-JSS. 2025;24:1595–1608.
MLA
Tatar, Selçuk. “Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 24, sy 4, Ekim 2025, ss. 1595-08, doi:10.21547/jss.1757247.
Vancouver
1.Selçuk Tatar. Mending Shells, Mending Worlds: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. GAUN-JSS. 01 Ekim 2025;24(4):1595-608. doi:10.21547/jss.1757247