“Other” and Nature: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of “Yoneko’s Earthquake”

“Yoneko’s Earthquake” is a masterpiece among the short stories by Japanese American writer Hisaye Yamamoto, and it reflects plight tragedy of women. The plot story seemingly simple but profound, especially design underlying text, which full ingenuity. From perspective postcolonial ecocriticism, Yamamoto’s complicity colonialism ecologism in many aspects. Take close look at natural images (the dog, field earthquake) story. This paper tries to find an interconnected identity between “other” nature. dog animalized human are both put position under colonial discourse; as domain colonization also nurtures power resistance from “other”,; subversive nature earthquake makes “self” briefly displaced. theory ecocriticism injects new vitality into this story; meanwhile, helps provoke thinking about racism speciesism.