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Eco-Marxism, Deep Ecology and Wilderness in Joy Harjo’s Selected Poems: An Ecocritical Reading
(Université Mouloud Mammeri, 2022) AIT MEDJBER Katia; FAHEM Zahia
Based on Joy Harjo’s poems “A Map to the Next World”(2000) from an eponymous book, “For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet” and “Talking with the Sun” from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), “ Remember” and “ In Praise of Earth” from How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (1975-2001), this dissertation intended to demonstrate the way the poet portrays nature and its relation with humans. Adopting Ecocriticism approach and its tropes, this research attempted to analyse the forms and the contents of the poems with reference to the poet’s cultural background. The poet dealt with ecopoetry to illustrate the nature of the relationship between the human and the non-human world. Indeed, the present dissertation attempted to explore the main aspects of Eco-Marxist on the poem “A Map to the Next World”. Harjo reminded us through her poem that modern capitalist ideologies caused alienation from nature, leading to the destruction of the environment. This paper discussed also the concepts of deep ecology, self-realization and ecological egalitarianism. This study showed that Harjo’s poetry contributed in connecting humans with their natural world, and created better understanding of how all living creatures work together to maintain life on earth.