“This is [our] world now”: exploring the naturalcultural in final fantasy X

• Main Author: Eng, Nicholas Yong Zhi
• Other Authors: Samara Anne Cahill
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71000
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Within this thesis, I shall explore ecofeminism as a subset of ecocriticism, looking at how the portrayal of female characters deconstructs the essentialist binaries of male/female and nature/culture to resituate them as ‘natureculture’. Greg Garrard defines this as a theory that “attempts to circumvent the conventional duality of the two terms [nature, and culture], that make it up, [also suggesting] continual interpretation and mutual constitution of the human and non-human worlds” (208). Though ultimately unable to deconstruct these essentialist binaries, FFX suggests that it might indeed be possible in the future to implement a truly naturalcultural vision.