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Book SynopsisScheherazade, the storyteller of
1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in
Scheherazade's Daughters, 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 (
Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and
Oryx & Crake), Barbara Kingsolver (
Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, and
Prodigal Summer), and Ruth Ozeki (
My Year of Meats and
All over Creation).
Bennett also analyzes ecofeminism in autobiography and memoir in Terry Tempest Williams'
Refuge, Janisse Ray's
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and Sandra Steingraber's
Living Downstream. Lastly through Isabel Allende's
House of the Spirits, Ana Castillo's
So Far from God, and Toni Morrison's <
