Title: Kyrgyz Women in the Home Front of World War II in Mother-Earth from the Perspective of Eco-Feminism

Abstract: The novel Mother-Earth by the famous Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov takes the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union as the background. Through the female perspective of first-person narrator, it takes the female groups engaged in productive labor behind the war as main images, showing the tough, hard-working and heroic aspects of women and the earth in light of eco-feminism. They endure hardship and rise up together, and finally achieve harmonious coexistence. Aitmatov’s female writing is a rebellion against traditional war literature. He pays attention to the real plight of women under war, and attaches importance to women’s war wounds and healing from a humanitarian perspective. Aitmatov’s work is a rewriting of the Great Patriotic War, prenlogizing the great contribution of the Kyrgyz nation to the victory of the war, and at the same time, gathering the stories of ordinary women in the wartime rear into a new great heroic epic.

Keywords: Mother-Earth, Chingiz Aitmatov, eco-feminism, home front of war

Authors: Jinmiao Guo, School of Foreign Languages, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; Yuquan Wu, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2025.03.002