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Abstract The present study aims at defining the concept of victimization and investigating why it is closely related to woman. It highlights the self, the social and the natural dimensions of woman victimization, and how Alice Munro represent the postmodern feministic suffering and victimization of woman in her long fiction and short stories. This study explores the connection Munro sets between woman and nature, and how far does it reflect the conception of social eco-feminism. The thematic and technical aspects that Munro utilizes to affect an impressive representation of woman victimization in her works are explored. This study presents the textual interpretations of Munro’s works to investigate how the “othering” of women and nature within Western ideology serves as vantage point in Munro’s stories. The social ecofeminist perspective with its association with woman victimization and nature’s violation, is located within the specifically Canadian literary and cultural context of Munro’s fictional world. Finally, it presents a technical analysis of Munro’s body of works to indicate how she has developed her own brand of the short story art. It tackles Munro’s most important accomplishments on the technical level. Key Words: Woman Victimization, Woman Empowerment, Alice Ann Munro, Short Story Fiction, Social Ecofeminism, Munroviana, Canadianness, Realism/Magic Realism, Sustainable Development. |