Abstract:

Doris Lessing is the winner of Nobel Prize in 2007, her first writing The Grass Is Singing is full of the opinion of ecofeminism. This paper attempts to analyze the novel from the view of ecofeminism, mainly from three aspects to reveal and analyze the oppressions which nature, women, blacks and the poor group suffered from the patriarchal background to elucidate its ecological meaning and feminist consciousness. The aim is to inspire us to build a feministic and harmonious society. The theme of ecofeminism in this work still has significant meaning in today’s problems of ecological environment and women’s issue.

Key words: The Grass Is Singing; ecofeminism; oppression; patriarchy; nature

摘 要：

多丽丝莱辛是2007年诺贝尔获奖者，她的处女作《野草在歌唱》是一部具有生态女性主义思想的小说。本文试图从生态女性主义的视角分析《野草在歌唱》，主要从三个方面揭示并分析了自然、女人、黑人和穷人阶层在父权制下所遭受的压迫，从而揭示小说中的生态意识、女性主义意识，旨在呼吁我们构建一个男女平等、和谐生存的社会。这部作品中体现的生态女性主义主题，对今天的生态环境和女性问题上仍具有重要意义。

关键词：野草在歌唱；生态女性主义；压迫；父权制；自然

1 Introduction
1.1 Doris Lessing and her Literary Works
Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is one of the most distinguished English literature writers in the 20th century for her unceasingly innovative works. She has gained her reputation since the first novel The Grass Is Singing published. She has received many famous awards for literature, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the David Cohen British Literary Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 11, 2007. The Swedish Academy in award words said that the reason of Lessing’s wining the prize is “she is the epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.” Due to her great contribution to English literature, Lessing is regarded as one of the greatest female writers after Virginia Woolf.
Doris Lessing is a productive writer. She has produced more than twenty novels, fourteen poems, eleven collections of short stories and four plays. Her works’ features are always changed in different stages. In her writing career, she is enthusiastic about the social issues, such as the role of women in society, the environmental problems as well as the inequality in relationship among genders, races, and classes of people. Her representative works mainly include The Grass Is Singing(1950), The Children of Violence (1952-1969), Five (short stories) (1953), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Summer Before the Dark(1973), The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980), The Diaries of Jane Somers (1984), The Fifth Child((1988) , Love, Again(1996) and so on.