Abstract
Ecofeminists seek the reversal of the oppressing binary oppositions of nature/culture, woman/man as to reach a balanced ecosystem in which women are not considered inferior since they are associated with nature .Therefore, ecofeminism could be regarded as a suitable framework for the discussion of the literary works and their treatment of woman/nature theme. The present article would be an attempt to demonstrate the way Farrokhzad’s “Let us Believe in the Oncoming of Cold Season” and Plath’s “Wintering”, concern such association and deconstruct the binary oppositions in a way that similarly both women personas are ultimately able to take the role of female artist. Both women transgress the winter and hope for the spring to come, while the winter they pass through differs since it originates from different social backgrounds. As such, new historicism would be applied to discover this difference, since the study is a comparative one and yields to the investigation of different societies in which the poems were composed. Farrokhzad lives in an era on the verge of modernism, that’s why she is still preoccupied with the traditions of the past, though she would finally depict the woman persona as having stepped beyond these limitations. Plath’s concerns, on the other hand, rise from a mind entangled with the impacts of modernity and the hollow men. Both are able to pass the winter, though, as female creators who await the reproductive spring blossoms to flourish.
Highlights
Ecofeminism, the term being coined in 1974 from the French feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne's work, "Le féminisme ou la mort”, has no single definition, there are some core principles agreed by almost all ecofeminists, such as the fact that the domination of women and that of nature are fundamentally connected and that environmental efforts are integral with work to overcome the oppression of women
The close connection between women and nature as being the oppressed in the binary opposition is one of the core principles of the ecofeminism, which is to be wiped out if the balanced ecosystem is to work out properly
Ecofeminism provides a comprehensive framework for studying the literary works in light of the way the ecosystem is depicted and how the so called ‘natural highrarchies’ are depicted in a piece of literature
Summary
Ecofeminism, the term being coined in 1974 from the French feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne's work, "Le féminisme ou la mort”, has no single definition, there are some core principles agreed by almost all ecofeminists, such as the fact that the domination of women and that of nature are fundamentally connected and that environmental efforts are integral with work to overcome the oppression of women. Ecofeminism is a practical movement for social change that discerns interconnections among all forms of oppression: the exploitation of nature, the oppression of women, class exploitation, racism, colonialism Against binary divisions such as self/other, culture/nature, man/woman, humans/animals, and white/non-white, ecofeminist theory asserts that human identity is shaped by more fluid relationships and by an acknowledgment of both connection and difference. As such, investigating the work of female authors to look for the ways in which they have attempted to transgress such imposed ‘naturality’ can be illuminating If this task is overtaken comparatively, the social; backgrounds of the poets should be taken into consideration as to see what have been the nature-culture dualities of the society which the woman poet has been able to move beyond. The new historical study of the two mentioned poems would be accompanied in a comparative way to picture the different winters the female poets have had in mind as the bridges to the oncoming spring
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