{"product_id":"scheherazade-s-daughters","title":"Scheherazade’s Daughters","description":"Scheherazade, 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.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223024619864,"sku":"9781433118715","price":81.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433118715.jpg?v=1782204322","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/scheherazade-s-daughters","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}