http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).29
10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).29
Published : Jun 2021
Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn
The present paper examines the exploitation of nature and its effect on Native Americans, who not only identify themselves with nature but also have a life-sharing bond of interdependence with it.The European colonisation not only displaced the Native Americans from their homeland but also exploited their resources. The destructive activities of the European colonizers wreaked a rift between Native Americans and their environment. Keeping these issues in view, Momaday depicts in House Made of Dawn the importance of restoring the Native Americans' lost identity by challenging the Euro-Americans' relegation of nature and Native Americans to a lower stratum to be destroyed and dominated. To restore his lost identity and peace of mind, Abel, the protagonist of the novel comes back to the natural world of his forefathers from the exploitative European environment. There search findings indicate the selected novel as a redressing measure to the existing environmental problems and advocates the cause of embracing the lost socio-cultural values of the Natives' ancestors that are rooted in nature.
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Eco-criticism, Restoration, Native Americanism, Euro-Americanism
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(1) Sardar Ahmad Farooq
PhD, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Amara Akram
MPhil, Riphah International University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Arshad Nawaz
Lecturer, Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Sub Campus Hafizabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Farooq, S. A., Akram, A., & Nawaz, A. (2021). Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn. Global Language Review, VI(II), 276 - 287. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).29
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CHICAGO : Farooq, Sardar Ahmad, Amara Akram, and Arshad Nawaz. 2021. "Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Global Language Review, VI (II): 276 - 287 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).29
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HARVARD : FAROOQ, S. A., AKRAM, A. & NAWAZ, A. 2021. Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn. Global Language Review, VI, 276 - 287.
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MHRA : Farooq, Sardar Ahmad, Amara Akram, and Arshad Nawaz. 2021. "Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Global Language Review, VI: 276 - 287
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MLA : Farooq, Sardar Ahmad, Amara Akram, and Arshad Nawaz. "Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Global Language Review, VI.II (2021): 276 - 287 Print.
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OXFORD : Farooq, Sardar Ahmad, Akram, Amara, and Nawaz, Arshad (2021), "Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn", Global Language Review, VI (II), 276 - 287
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TURABIAN : Farooq, Sardar Ahmad, Amara Akram, and Arshad Nawaz. "Grappling with Environmental Crisis: An Eco-critical Study of Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Global Language Review VI, no. II (2021): 276 - 287. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).29