Abstract
Relationship with the environment is rooted in the
epistemology of a community. The white worldview
favors hierarchy of the chain of being. Environment
being at the lowest rung deserves only one response
from mankind: subjugation and destruction which
entail white dominance for ecocide of the Native
American environment. Alexies incorporation of
Nature is not an escapist stance; it comes from the
understanding that no venture into future is possible
without understanding the past. The Native American
epistemology is land based in which geography, events,
myth and history cohere with mutually supporting
brotherhood of humans and non-humans. Alexie is an
environmental racist who believes that the
Euroamericans are responsible for the breach of the
Native American ecological balance. Dislocations of the
Natives and the destruction of their environment meant
the annihilation of their civilization. Alexies poetry
imaginatively recovers the Native American
relationship with the environment destroyed by EuroAmerican colonization
Authors
1-Ghulam Murtaza Associate Professor, Department of English, GC University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.2-Shaheena Ayub Bhatti Professor, Department of English, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.3-Shazia Rose Assistant Professor, Department of English, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Keywords
Native American Literature, Euroamerican Literature, Anthropomorphism, Speciesism, Nature, Horizontal and Vertical Relationship with
DOI Number
10.31703/glr.2019(IV-I).06
Page Nos
46-54
Volume & Issue
IV - I