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The Absence and Urge for Love-An Ecofeminist Study of Hills like White Elephants

Yanyan Liao

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Hills like White Elephants,a short story by the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway,shows a strong love for nature and a deep concern for women's fate.Taking an ecofeminist perspective,this paper analyses Hemingway's criticism of anthropocentrism and patriarchy,and his hope for reconstructing a new world,where human beings and nature exist interdependently and reciprocally,and at the same time men and women live equally and harmoniously.

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Hills like White Elephants,a short story by the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway,shows a strong love for nature and a deep concern for women's fate.Taking an ecofeminist perspective,this paper analyses Hemingway's criticism of anthropocentrism and patriarchy,and his hope for reconstructing a new world,where human beings and nature exist interdependently and reciprocally,and at the same time men and women live equally and harmoniously.

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Hills like White Elephants,a short story by the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway,shows a strong love for nature and a deep concern for women's fate.Taking an ecofeminist perspective,this paper analyses Hemingway's criticism of anthropocentrism and patriarchy,and his hope for reconstructing a new world,where human beings and nature exist interdependently and reciprocally,and at the same time men and women live equally and harmoniously.

Key concepts: Anthropocentrism, Patriarchy, Ecofeminism, White (mutation), Perspective (graphical), Criticism, Sociology, Environmental ethics

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