The Significance of Integrating Environment in Literature Case Study: Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver

Abstract

Flourishing in 1980s on the shoulders of environmental movement of the 1960s, ecocriticism has been and remains an earth-centred approach as a reaction to man’s anthropocentric attitude to dominating nature. Eventually, the main practical problem that confronts human beings and leads raising questions is the intricate intersections between men, environment and culture. Accordingly, the dissertation’s main aim is to investigate how eco-fiction allowed individuals to examine the universe and criticize their ways of contrasting analyzing the paradoxical interplay between man and nature. Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior (2012) is a novel chosen and employed as a case study to shed light on the significant role of literature in integrating environment. Besides, the analytical as well descriptive approaches are used to elucidate how human interaction with the environment through literature reflects the cultural and spiritual ethics. The main findings indicate that ecocriticism is related to the human perception for the needs and problems in understanding the image of the natural world. This memoire proves that eco-fiction shifted from privileging language and difficulty of preferentiality to approaches that emphasizes the value of words. Its whole kernel was helped making connections among self, society and nature possible. Hence, it is highly recommended for further researchers to raise awareness on the honourable and valuable task of literature to raise global issues about nature is an attempt to find possible solutions of the contemporary world’s complex.