The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology, 2020, 2(1); doi: 10.25236/FSST.2020.020104.
Shutao Zhou*
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
*Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Coetzee is the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for literature. Coetzee’s creation contains many thoughts and attempts on reality, history, philosophy, language, culture and many other aspects. Basically, each of his novels presents its own unique artistic style, and all involve the frontier issues of knowledge and culture at the time. In many of his novels, the description of nature, animals and colonization deeply reflects his ecological view. Based on the specific description of Coetzee’s works, this paper explores natural ecocriticism, social ecocriticism involved in his works, and systematically expounds Coetzee’s ecological view, in order to better serve the overall ecological civilization construction in natural and social fields.
Coetzee; ecological view; postcolonial ecocriticism
Shutao Zhou. A study of Coetzee’s works from the perspective of postcolonial ecocriticism. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 1: 35-40. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2020.020104.
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