Ecofeminism and Post-Human Identity in Contemporary Speculative Fiction: A Semiotic Analysis of Female Narratives

Abstract

The study looks at how ecofeminism and post-human identification interact in contemporary post-human identity and how female narratives reinterpret ideas of the environment and the relationship between humans and non-humans. This research demonstrates that speculative fiction is a perfect setting for the discursive techniques of ecofeminist narratives by using gender, ecology, and technology as the themes of semiotic analysis in a selection of works by female authors. The main emphasis of the essay is on the stories that show how the female protagonists reject anthropocentric anthropomorphism and adopt post-human attitudes that challenge patriarchal conventions and provide a new way of coexisting with nature. Because of the study's link to semiotics principles, the research shows how these stories oppose patriarchal components, promote environmentalism, and open up identity categories. According to this study, modern speculative fiction stimulates ecofeminist concerns alongside socio-environmental ones, encouraging readers to envision utopian posthuman communities based on gender equality and relationships with nonhuman beings. This research elucidates post-humanism, ecofeminism, and literary semiotics by describing how speculative fiction may influence changes in social and ecological reality.