ผู้หญิง ธรรมชาติ และการหายไปของ “แม่” กับมุมมองสตรีนิยมสายนิเวศในนวนิยายเรื่อง Solar Storm ของลินดา โฮแกน

Abstract

This article aims to explore the relationship between woman and nature, and the importance of maternal absence as the main plot in Solar Storm, a novel by Linda Hogan, through an ecofeminist perspective.
The study shows that this piece of literary work illustrates ecofeminist concept that there are connections between the domination of women and the domination of nature. Maternal absence is employed in this novel to echo the author’s voice in criticizing and deconstructing the exploitative stances that governs the mother-nature metaphor. In this novel, the author insists that “motherhood” is not the always-idealistic position, but should be considered as an alternative identity for women. At the meantime, the author suggests that hierarchical dualism and logic of domination that influence western culture should be replaced with holistic worldview and care ethics that seeks to maintain relationships by contextualizing and promoting the well-being of both care-givers and care-receivers in a network of social relations.