ECOCRITICAL READING OF

Ecocriticism and Postmodern Environmentalism have much in common. The latter, influenced by the notions of diversity and plurality in social and literal movement of postmodernism, and rejecting anthropocentrism, seeks and believes in a solution for the environmental crisis the human being has created in the world due to economic, technological and ideological structures in order to protect the integrity of the Earth's ecological communities and ecocentric values. The former tries to study the relationship between the literature and the environment and the treatment of the nature in the literary and even the non-literary texts. In fact, it is argued that wilderness have a special place in communicating spiritual wisdom to man. This is especially meaningful when the separation began to be considered between the ‘human ’ and ‘natural ’ sciences. And by the same token, the supporters of ‘Deep Ecology, ’ a notion coined by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, criticise what they term ‘Shallow Ecology. ’ Hence, Ecocriticism studies, in one way or the other, the relationship in the binary oppositions of nature / culture and nature/human and the manifestation of theses concepts and their interaction in the literary works. The article will give an overview of the movement and an ecocritical analysis of a short story by Ernes