One earth family: An Eco-Feministic Study of the Novel Everything the Light by Janice Pariat

Abstract

The paper examines how the colonial attitude persists today in the form of masculine capitalism, where a few dominant powers oppress the rest of the biodiversity. Furthermore, masculine capitalism attributes its destructive acts to technological and mechanical development. It constructed and framed this illusion to be the development of mankind. The word development means steady and strong growth of something. In contrast to the meaning, masculine capitalism is heading the human species towards extinction. The research, as depicted in Janice Pariat’s novel Everything the Light Touches, highlights that it is high time to dismantle the hierarchical structure in order to protect the Earth and its ecosystem. The realization of this critical situation by the female population led them to propose the idea of eco-feminism, which challenges the masculine hierarchical structure by considering the earth as one family. The novel explores the beauty and unique inner worth of lives that exist beyond mankind. It explores the relationship that humans share with plants and the natural world.