TY - JOUR
T1 - Écocide et déshumanisation
T2 - pour une lecture écocritique des miracles relatifs de Nancy Huston
AU - Seabra Neves, Márcia
N1 - UIDB/00657/2020
UIDP/00657/2020
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Ecological threats are one of the major worries of our times. Human beings are becoming aware of their responsibility for the destruction of the world which surrounds them. The interest in these questions of the environment and ecology is widely present within contemporary fiction. Interrogations on the relationships people have with planet earth arise in it continuously and move progressively from an anthropocentric vision to an ecocentric perception of the literary object. This is the case of the French-Canadian author Nancy Huston. In her novel, Le club des miracles relatifs (2016), she depicts a dehumanised world and a slaughtered nature in a sort of ecologic dystopia, in which she denounces the exploitation of the deposits of bituminous sands in Canada, and presents us annihilated human beings, who have destroyed their own planet. In this article, I aim at presenting an ecocritical approach on the novel, with the purpose of analysing the narrative techniques used on the representation of the ties between humans and the planet they live on. Furthermore, I will look into the relationships between environmental consciousness and literary aesthetics, as well as into the connection between existential crises and the contemporary ecologic calamities.
AB - Ecological threats are one of the major worries of our times. Human beings are becoming aware of their responsibility for the destruction of the world which surrounds them. The interest in these questions of the environment and ecology is widely present within contemporary fiction. Interrogations on the relationships people have with planet earth arise in it continuously and move progressively from an anthropocentric vision to an ecocentric perception of the literary object. This is the case of the French-Canadian author Nancy Huston. In her novel, Le club des miracles relatifs (2016), she depicts a dehumanised world and a slaughtered nature in a sort of ecologic dystopia, in which she denounces the exploitation of the deposits of bituminous sands in Canada, and presents us annihilated human beings, who have destroyed their own planet. In this article, I aim at presenting an ecocritical approach on the novel, with the purpose of analysing the narrative techniques used on the representation of the ties between humans and the planet they live on. Furthermore, I will look into the relationships between environmental consciousness and literary aesthetics, as well as into the connection between existential crises and the contemporary ecologic calamities.
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000708203300004
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2021.1975896
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2021.1975896
M3 - Article
VL - 25
SP - 416
EP - 424
JO - Contemporar French and Francophone Studies
JF - Contemporar French and Francophone Studies
IS - 4
ER -