the ecofeminist reading of vladimir nabokov’s laughter in the dark

This article aims at studying ecofeminism in vladimir nabokov rsquo;s laughter in the dark. nabokov rsquo;s works have been the matter of different perspectives since they have been created but this article claims that what has so far been neglected about his works is that nabokov rsquo;s novels pay respectful attention to nature and its problems. ecofeminism, a branch of ecocriticism, has been created and widened recently by some prominent thinkers like susan griffin and elizabeth bishop. in the context of ecofeminism, the similarities between nature and women in having two opposite sides is the site of authorship for some contemporary writers. nature and women, according to them, are both healer and killer simultaneously. the article shows how these two sides are presented in nabokov rsquo;s novel, and, by means of which it, tacitly, claims that nabokov, as in his other works, worships nature and its elements.