BARBARA KINGSOLVER'S FLIGHT BEHAVIOUR: AN ECO FEMINISTIC APPROACH

ABSTRACT

Literary works express the ideas and feelings of human beings towards the society. They act as a foremost tool in building social construction among the people. The literary works also plays a vital role in the lives of women for their upliftment. They make women to realise their self. One such writer who strives hard to elevate women through her works is Barbara Kingsolver. Though she is an ecologist writer, she concentrates on her women characters by associating them with the natural world. Eco-feminists states that without any liberation to nature there will not be no successful in liberating women from hurdles. In the novel Flight Behaviour Kingsolver portrays Dellarobia's behavioural amelioration in relation with nature. Thus, this paper accounts on Dellarobia's ?ght or ?ight behaviour in search of her own identity