A Study on the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Ecological Civilization Views in The Bear and Wolf Totem
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https://doi.org/10.63313/SSH.9096Keywords:
The Bear, Wolf Totem, Cross-Cultural Ecocriticism, Wilderness Ethics, Grassland WisdomAbstract
Faulkner's The Bear and Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem represent the wilderness ethics of the southern United States and the nomadic ecological wisdom of the Mongolian steppe in China respectively. Through parallel comparison, this paper finds that The Bear constructs a wilderness ethics with humility as the core, revealing the dual colonization of nature and spirit by capitalism; Wolf Totem presents grassland wisdom based on system balance, criticizing the destruction of local ecological knowledge by agricultural civilization. There are differences between the two ecological ethics, but they can complement each other. This paper reflects on the universalist limitations of Western ecocriticism and advocates transforming local ecological discourse into global ethical resources to provide a new path for cross-cultural ecological dialogue.
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