Abstract
Kim Scott is an extraordinary Australian writer. More and more Australians pay their attention to Kim Scott’s works, studying Kim Scott’s novels from the perspective of post-modernism. The author of this paper intends to study Kim Scott’s novel of That Deadman Dance and explores his ecological consciousness in it as his novel describes the relation of humans and nature, the white and the aborigines, and man and self. Ecology is an interdisciplinary subject that is concerning life and environment, human and nature, human and society as well as spirit and material. Eco-criticism extends ecology to explore and criticize ecological ideology reflected in literary works. This paper is based on the U.S. eco-scholar Cheryll Glotfelty’s theory of eco-criticism and employs the three divisions of ecology put forward by Professor Shuyuan Lu. Through the analysis of the ecological points of the white and the aborigines, the interpretation of the white social ecology and the aboriginal social ecology and the description of the white’s and the aborigines’ spiritual world, the paper reveals how man and nature can co-exist in harmony, the advantages of the aboriginal social ecology and spiritual ecology to solve the crisis. The novel expresses the writer’s thoughts over ecological crisis and he thinks that respecting nature and keeping natural, social and spiritual harmony is the right way to get out of the crisis.
Highlights
Introduction to Ecological Literary CriticismEco-criticism, called “studies of Literature and Environment”, appeared in the western and America in 1970s and formed in America in 1990s
They are natural ecology which researches on the natural world, social ecology which researches on the political activities and economical activities and spiritual ecology which researches on man’s spiritual activities. (Lu, 2000, p. 146) social ecology researches on the relationship among people
If the natural ecology is reflected in the relationship between people and nature and social ecology deals with relationship between people, the spiritual ecology is reflected in man's relationship with himself
Summary
Eco-criticism, called “studies of Literature and Environment”, appeared in the western and America in 1970s and formed in America in 1990s. It stood out in the literary criticisms at the end of 20th century It is defined as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty,1996,xviii) by the founder of eco-criticism Cheryll Glotfelty in her work The Eco-criticism Reader in 1996. Eco-criticism studies literary from the perspective of ecology and affects the formation of the policy that is good for the balance between human and nature. It can dig out the ecological consciousness embodied in the literature. Eco-criticism should analyze nature in literature, but should probe into the root of ecological crisis from the perspectives of spirit and society. Australian writer Kim Scott is such a man whose novels describe the natural, social and spiritual crises in Australia and gives his own solution to the crises from the aspect of eco-criticism
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