Volume VI Special Issue I January 2026

Name of Author : Puja Saha

Title of the paper : Navigating Transcorporeality: Ecofeministic Engagement with Settler Colonial Imaginary

Abstract: The process of oppression, subjugation is gendered which takes concrete shape in the form of ecological disparity coinciding with the degradation of women that, according to Vandana Shiva, breeds masculinization of the motherland. This disparity, in the words of Rosemary Radford Ruether, originates from the traditional Western approach called transcendental dualism that promotes the dualism between man as the container of consciousness and woman as a mere docile body. This paper will represent an ecofeministic reading of Australian writer Tim Wintons novel Shallows, drawing on Stacy Alaimos concept of transcorporeality, the corporeal intertwined connection between human and more than human beings. This paper will argue that Tim Winton by deconstructing such body mind, male female, human nonhuman binary sets forth resistance towards such gendered inequality and establishes a new epistemological shift that interrogates the formation of settler colonial identity.

Keywords : Transcorporeality, ecofeminism, transcendental dualism, settler colonial literature, Shallows.

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Page Number : 256-261