TTLV: Approaching Toni Morrison's Beloved from Ecocritical Theory

1. Student's full name:BareMinh Tam     

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: November 9, 1993

4. Place of birth: Binh Luc - Ha Nam

5. Decision on recognition of students No. 4295/2016/QD-XHNV dated December 16, 2016 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi

6. Changes in the training process:

7. Thesis topic: ApproachPampersToni Morrison's Ecocritical Theory

8. Major: Foreign Literature

9. Scientific advisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Duy Hiep - University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

10. Summary of thesis results:

Since its official emergence in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become one of the fastest growing and most promising fields in literary studies. Ecocritics have pointed out that the consciousness of nature is strongly influenced by the subject position in terms of ownership, race, class, gender or sexuality and often reflects the viewpoint of the dominant social ideology that is characteristic of men and white people (in European and American literature).

TopicNextnearPampersToni Morrison's Ecocritical Theorydelve into Toni Morrison's novel applying the second wave of ecocriticism. The thesis aims to identify, analyze and evaluate the awareness of nature, the relationship between nature and humans through the perspective of African American women from the past of slavery to the present of freedom. We find that nature in the work is polysemous, complex, flexible and changing. On that basis, the work raises the issue of the fair relationship between nature and humans, the fair relationship between races, classes, genders, the issue of freedom and the preservation and consolidation of identity.

11. Practical application:

The research results of the thesis will provide a more general and complete view of the novel.PampersToni Morrison's novels from an ecocritical perspective to see the applicability of this theory to the works of a black female writer and see the positive message that Morrison wants to convey when creating a new relationship between humans and nature. From the results of this research, it is hoped that it will become a source of reference for those who love Morrison's novels, and at the same time help the author of the thesis gain more experience in the process of receiving literature.

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13. Published works related to the thesis:

INFORMATION ABOUT THESIS

1. Learner's full name:TrsafeMinh Tam

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: November 9^th, 1975

4. Place of birth: Binh Luc district – Ha Nam province

5. Decision on recognition of student no.: 4295/QD-XHNV dated December 16^th, 2016 of Rector of University of Social Sciences – Vietnam National University, Hanoi City

6. Changes during training period:

7. Topic of thesis: Approaching Toni Morrison'sBelovedfrom ecological criticism

8. Major: Foreign Literature

9. Science instructor: Assoc. Prof. &Dr. Dao Duy Hiep - University of Social Sciences – Vietnam National University, Hanoi City.

10. Brief of result of the thesis:

Since ecocriticism officially began in the 1990s, it has become one of the fastest growing and promising field in literary criticism. The ecocritics point out that the nature's perspectives were strongly influenced by subject's position on the ownership, race, class, gender or sex and often reflect the views of ideology that dominate society, specifically to men and white people (in European and American literature).

The topic on “ApproachingToni Morrison'sBelovedfrom ecological criticism"deeply studies the novel by Toni Morrison aproaching the second waves of ecocriticism. The thesis aims to identify, analyze and evaluate the perspectives about nature and relationship between nature and people through the views of African American women in the past slavery to present freedom. We suppose nature in literary work has multiple meanings, complex, flexible and changing. Thereby, the work raises the issue of a balance relationship between nature and people, a balance relationship between race, class, gander, freedom and maintaining and strengthening of identity.

11. Applicability in reality:

Researching result of the thesis brings a more comprehensive overview on the novelBelovedby Toni Morrison from ecocriticism to see the applicability of this theory to the work of a colored female writer and see the positive massage that Morrison wants to convey when creating a new relationship between people and nature. From this research result, hopefully, it will be a reference for those who love the novel of Morrison and also help the author have more experiences in the process of reading literature.

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13. Announced works related to the thesis: