%0 Journal Article 
%A Fargione, Daniela
%T ContaminAzioni e AddomesticaMenti: "wilderness" e follia ne "L'isola di Sukwann" di David Vann
%D 2013
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20298
%X In
Addio
alla
natura
(2010),
a
provocative
essay
that
has
enflamed
a
lively
debate
in
Italy,
semiologist
Gianfranco
Marrone
argues
that
taking
leave
from
Nature
is
the
only
effective
way
to
save
the
environment,
our
human
lives,
and
our
future.
By
contrast,
in
David
Vann’s
Sukkwan
Island,
the
two
male
protagonists
(a
depressed
absent
father
and
his
immature
son)
choose
Alaska’s
wilderness
as
their
ideal
place
for
personal
escapes,
mental
regenerations,
and
new
beginnings.
What
I
intend
to
demonstrate
in
this
essay
is
how
both
arguments
-­‐
a
world
without
Nature
and
a
Nature
without
human
beings
-­‐
are
inevitably
doomed
to
fail.
What
I
propose,
instead,
is
an
idea
of
ContaminAction,
i.e.
a
gradual
awareness
of
complex
issues,
which
need
to
be
faced
from
a
multiplicity
of
perspectives
and
solved
through
the
active
participation
of
both
the
human
and
non-­‐
human
agents
of
our
societies.
Eventually,
the
analysis
of
Vann’s
novella
perfectly
illustrates
how
literary
texts
can
affect
behavioral
models
and
lifestyles.
By
touching
upon
the
level
of
the
human
conscience
and
individual
responsibility,
in
fact,
this
literary
work
not
only
reflects
cogent
ecocritical
issues
but
also
their
practical
fallouts
on
the
reality
lying
beyond
the
page.
Finally,
the
interconnections
of
nature
and
madness
demonstrate
how
the
redemptive
power
of
both
nature
and
fiction
cannot
transcend
past
errors,
familial
dysfunctions,
self-­‐obsessions,
and
a
haunting
sense
of
doom.

%K Wilderness
%K ContaminAction
%K Nature and madness
%K Materiality
%K ContaminAcción
%K Naturaleza y locura
%K Materia
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala