%0 Journal Article 
%A Trevathan, John H.
%T Submergence: on transatlantic ecocriticism, islands and archipelagos

%D 2017
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29604
%X In "Yo  maté  a  Kennedy", Manuel Vázquez Montalbán wrote with irony: “ecologicaltruth drives historical truth.” Today, the direct connection between ecological and historical truths is quite serious. In his polemical essay “Four Theses on Climate History,” Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that,  in  order  to  explain  anthropogenic  climate  change,  geological  history  should  be  included  in human history. In other words, “ecological truth” should be integral to “historical truth.” What is missing  in  this  observation  is  a  sense  of  socio-political  difference.  What  is  needed  is  not  a consideration  of isolated  regions,  whether  they  are  national,  ecological  or  linguistic,  but  rather  an analysis that investigates a constellation of social movements, objects and  events.  This means that transatlantic  ecocriticism  should  consider  how  regions  are  connected,  thinking  in  line  with  the logics of movements such as the "indignados", "vía campesina" or "altermundisme". This essay approaches a series of steps between Spain and Cuba, examining various texts and terrains that are stylistically and  historically  distinct.  I  focus  on  the  tropes  of  the  island  and  the  archipelago  in  the  works  of Cuban poet José Lezama Lima and the Catalan writer Francesc Serés.

%K Ecocriticism
%K Transatlantic studies
%K Catalan studies
%K Francesc Serés
%K José Lezama Lima
%K Hydroelectric dams
%K Francoism
%K Ecocrítica
%K Estudios transatlánticos
%K Estudios catalanes
%K Centrales hidroeléctricas
%K Franquismo
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
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