{"product_id":"scheherazades-daughters-the-power-of-storytelling-in-ecofeminist-change-9781433118715","title":"Scheherazade's Daughters: The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Horst Daemmrich | Barbara Bennett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScheherazade, the storyteller of \u003ci\u003e1001 Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in \u003ci\u003eScheherazade's Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism. Bennett examines how ecofeminism works in works by Margaret Atwood (\u003ci\u003eSurfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOryx \u0026amp; Crake\u003c\/i\u003e), Barbara Kingsolver (\u003ci\u003eAnimal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProdigal Summer\u003c\/i\u003e), and Ruth Ozeki (\u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll over Creation\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e Bennett also analyzes ecofeminism in autobiography and memoir in Terry Tempest Williams' \u003ci\u003eRefuge, \u003c\/i\u003e Janisse Ray's \u003ci\u003eEcology of a Cracker Childhood, \u003c\/i\u003e and Sandra Steingraber's \u003ci\u003eLiving Downstream.\u003c\/i\u003e Lastly through Isabel Allende's \u003ci\u003eHouse of the Spirits, \u003c\/i\u003e Ana Castillo's \u003ci\u003eSo Far from God, \u003c\/i\u003e and Toni Morrison's \u003ci\u003eBeloved, \u003c\/i\u003e Bennett investigates how magical realism can spread the positive ideas of ecofeminism.\u003cbr\u003e This groundbreaking book dissects the power of literature to convert minds and hearts in a direction that has the potential, like Scheherazade's stories, to change our world for the better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47599260860567,"sku":"9781433118715","price":7622.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781433118715.webp?v=1775003754","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/scheherazades-daughters-the-power-of-storytelling-in-ecofeminist-change-9781433118715","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}