“Somsimuang” by Kwanchai Emchai, Naiin Award’s Literature: Ecocriticism

Abstract

            This research article had an objective to analyze the youth literature from Naiin Award in 2001 and selected the sample with purposive sampling that was Kwanchai Emchai entitled Somsimuang. Concepts for analysis were ecocriticism by Cheryll Glottfelty, representation by Stuart Hall and narrative by Vladimir Propp and A.J. Greimas. These concepts were for analyzing of relations between human and nature and environment in Somsimuang.

            The result found that winning youth literature of Naiin Award entitled Somsimuang appeared the ecological relation between human and nature in 3 topics. 1) First, to present the representation between human and nature in a dependence way. As humans consumed nature for survival and the representation of cruelness of nature or enemy by using a language technique to make obstacles in the characters’ way of lives through scenes which represent their positive and negative behavior depending on nature and environment. 2) Second, to narrate the otherness by using the character’s narrative technique where there were legislations made by the power ones to force society perform along with mainstream and to gain an acceptance in the same way. 3) Third, to make characters in a style of binary opposition for precepting negative behavior of human that was opposite to good characters and to make the readers realize the importance of human-nature/environment relations that was seen both positive and negative ways.