https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1346203
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.186-217
Ecofeminist Perspectives and Themes in Selected Works of Olga Tokarczuk
Cristina Godun
Olga Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate and one of Poland’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, is renowned for her humanist, feminist, and ecological stances. Her works, including “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead”, “The Empusium”, and select stories from “Bizarre Tales” (specifically “Green Children”, and “The Calendar of Human Holidays”), explore themes of interconnectedness between women, nature, and animals. Through an ecofeminist interpretation grid, this paper examines how Tokarczuk criticizes patriarchal structures and celebrates ecological harmony, revealing the profound social and environmental implications of her narratives.
Keywords: ecofeminism; animal rights; interconnectedness; ecological awareness
About the Author: Cristina Godun is an Associate Professor of Polish language at the University of Bucharest, Department of Russian and Slavic Philology. She has authored works on Polish literature, grammar and phonetics, co-authored dictionaries, and published articles in Poland and Romania. As a translator, she has rendered over 40 books from Polish and English into Romanian, including works by A. Stasiuk, O. Tokarczuk, W. Gombrowicz, and S. Twardoch.
