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Volume 21:5 May 2021
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The Impact of War and Environmental Issues Depicted Through
Starhawk’s Select Novels

M. Pavithra, MA, M.Phil. PGDCA, DKMT

Abstract

The World War II has been a great predicament for the United States of America in the 20th Century. Starhawk’s select novels of this study, Walking to Mercury (1997) and The Fifth sacred Thing (1993) are concerned significantly with the World War II and the corresponding environmental impact. This circumstance forms the background setting of the select novels of Starhawk. She illustrates the authoritative elements, political and economic condition throughout these novels. This study focuses on the chronological projections of War elements as they seem to be the fundamental cause for the environmental havoc. After the Second World War the City seems to have been destroyed with the political powers and the environment also demolishes it slowly. This study highlights the development of war and the invasion into the country. The protagonist of the novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993) struggles to defeat the army with the fifth sacred element of the cosmos.

Keywords: Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing, Walking to Mercury, City of Refuge, Environmental havoc, chronological projections of war

Starhawk is an American writer and activist, born on 17 June 1951. She focuses on feminist Neo-paganism and Ecofeminism. The term ‘Neo-paganism’ means a modern religious movement that seeks to incorporate beliefs or ritual practices from traditions outside the religions of the main world especially those of pre-Christian Europe and North America. It is nature worshipping and is a form of nature religion. Her Ecofeminism links between the life-giving Mother Nature with the life-giving of ability of women through birth in addition to the link between the ecological destruction and patriarchal oppression under the male-dominated western political economics. Her writings and activism promote equality for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Starhawk argues that society’s patriarchal culture of authority results in domination and violence.

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M. Pavithra, MA, M.Phil. PGDCA, DKMT
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English Literature
St. Joseph’s College for Women, Tirupur 641604
pavithra.m3494@gmail.com
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