Scheherazade’s Daughters : The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change Hardback

by Barbara Bennett

Part of the Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature series

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Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazadeâ€™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 Handmaidâ€™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 Williamsâ€™ Refuge, Janisse Rayâ€™s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and Sandra Steingraberâ€™s Living Downstream.

Lastly through Isabel Allendeâ€™s House of the Spirits, Ana Castilloâ€™s So Far from God, and Toni Morrisonâ€™s Beloved, Bennett investigates how magical realism can spread the positive ideas of ecofeminism. This groundbreaking book dissects the power of literature to convert minds and hearts in a direction that has the potential, like Scheherazadeâ€™s stories, to change our world for the better.