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The issue of earth' s ecology is enough to be called the topic for the debates of the 21st century, more severe than any time in the history.
One of the important obligations for the literature is awakening the awareness that the humans and nature are merged as one. Eco-feminism which seeks to establish a new relationship between humans and the nature is newly getting the spotlight in the world of ecological literature.
The ultimate goals which eco-feminism seeks is the "the harmony and balance between humans and the humans and the nature".
The aspects of Eco-feminism and its significance illustrated in a full-length novel by Gong, Sun-ok ff"Come to the Sugar Cane Fields.ll was examined in depth. This novel' s ecological imagination is respectable as the story which promotes the concerns for ecology and women, though it may not be the strongly accusatory environmental literature nor the strongly radical feminist literature.
The author attempts , not to illustrate the heroic feminine ego oriented toward struggles and triumphs but to portray a truly ecological and alternative society through the determination and patience for 'life' of the women with the strong life force , their personal love and related sexual desires and the morals from the eco-feministic angle. She has drawn the eco-feministic sensitivity and strong correlation which reintegrate the human minds , not the mind of a women with the symbiosis and harmony, through the way she portrayed the 'mother' s heart' and 'the earth'. The novel gives rise to the critical attitude towards the human isolation and the social contradictions in the modern civilization, forcing us to reflect upon what is the truest life for the humans , that is the value of life in an ecological sense.
Leading the isolated children with the hearts of a mother and protecting them, expanding the family' s principle to the society and building the community of families with love and peace and further displaying the relationship between the earth and the motherhood dreaming of the co-existence and harmony with nature which has been destroyed by the industrialized society can be found consistently throughout the novel.『Come to the Sugar Cane Fields』
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