Presentation of Race within an Ecocritical Discourse in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation

Abstract

We live in a world increasingly lost to pollution, contamination and industry-sponsored bio-disaster. It is now a truism to say that mankind is efficiently committing ecocide, making the planet inhospitable for life of any kind. Ecocriticism originates in a bio-social context of unrestrained capitalism, excessive exploitation of capitalism and environmental hazard. Ecocriticism has been influenced by insights from Philosophy, Sociology, Feminism, Marxism and other disciplines and approaches. This paper analyses how race is presented within an Ecocritical discourse in Ruth Ozeki’s novel All Over Creation. In All Over Creation, Ozeki explores the utopian vision of agriculture through her characters’ involvement in the critique of genetic engineering.