The Idea of the Wilderness: Gender and Resistance in Le Roman de Silence

Barr, Jessica

doi:10.1353/art.2020.0000

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“…The word suggests "trial and danger" combining with "freedom, redemption, and purity." Any discussions on wilderness in literary works represent it as the place for escape (Barr, 2020), of refuge (Jhansi & Rao, 2020), of becoming (Vogel & Sena, 2020), of self-discovery and individuation (Noda, 2018), as an underworld (Wistey, 2020), and as an untamed landscape (Azizah & Sa'adah, 2017). All those earlier studies on wilderness have paid less attention to how the wilderness serves as a survival resource.…”

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Katniss’ Savior: Wilderness in Suzanne Collins’s 'The Hunger Games'

Sa'adah

Febrianti

Ariyanti

et al. 2021

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From many discussions on wilderness in literary works, only a few focus on the young adult dystopian, even more on Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. For this reason, this article aims to portray the wilderness in the book as the survival resource since the previous studies fail to point out such an issue. This recent study is conducted by descriptive qualitative methods. As the theoretical basis, the discussion employs Garrard’s account of wilderness and Ross’s myth of wilderness in American literature. As a result, the discussion depicts the wilderness as the natural woodland surrounding District 12 and the artificial battleground of the Games in Panem. The woods in Katniss’s district enable her to provide for her family and develop such literacy in the wilderness. This literacy is advantageous in the Games arena, thus helps Katniss to be one of the winners. The findings might provide such an insight to the reader to live harmoniously with nature, even more with the wilderness.

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confidence: 99%