Ecological Senses and The Relationship between Humans and Nature In the Novel Dechani
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This article aims to analyse the ecological senses in the novel titled Dechani written by Daochariya on three issues: 1) the ecological sense of vision—the making of nature as an object of the gaze 2) the ecological sense of hearing—implication of sound and the definition of nature, and 3) the ecological senses of touch and smell—the unstable human body and mind. From the study, it was found that the ecological sense of vision is connected to the making of nature as an object of the gaze as it responds to humans. The ecological sense of hearing is related to 3 features of nature: the auspicious plant, the dangerous plant and the romantic plant. The ecological senses of touch and smell present the transgression which leads to a deviation from the society’s discourse on normality by making the human body as something else. In summary this paper reveals that the novel presents the relationship between humans and nature through the experience of ecological senses.
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