%0 Journal Article %A Roldán Romero, Vanesa %T Colonising the nonhuman other in Anne Haverty’s "One day as a tiger" %D 2022 %@ 2171-9594 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/51738 %X The rise of new ethical anxieties in the interaction between humans and nonhumans alike has not left human social relations and philosophical frameworks unaffected. One such framework might be ecocriticism, a tool of literary analysis that, while not exceptionally new, is not yet widely applied to contemporary Irish literature. In this article, I explore one instance of the animal trope in the novel "One Day as a Tiger" (1997), written by the Irishwoman Anne Haverty. The novel could explore and denounce how Irish society has not totally rejected colonialism and its anthropocentric foundation; instead, Haverty’s fictional Ireland seems to have appropriated the colonising discourse once applied to them and turned it against the nonhuman realm, especially animals, to justify their existence as an independent State. Therefore, the aim of this article is to explore whether, and to what extent, the human protagonist of the novel otherises and reduces the nonhuman protagonist, a ewe, into a symbol of Irish nationality. %K Anne Haverty %K Ecocriticism %K Colonialism %K Ireland %K Nonhuman %K Sheep %K Ecocrítica %K Colonialismo %K Irlanda %K No-humano %K Oveja %K Literatura %K Literature %K Medio ambiente %K Environmental science %~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala