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dc.contributor.authorSlovic, Scott
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-12T08:42:46Z
dc.date.available2021-01-12T08:42:46Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationEcozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, v. 11, n. 2 (2020), pp. 154-161
dc.identifier.issn2171-9594
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/45734
dc.description.abstractFor nearly two decades since Lawrence Buell defined and anatomized “toxic discourse” in “Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond” (2001), the storying of toxic experience has received fruitful theoretical and literary attention. Throughout the world, citizens have come to terms with the reality that we live on a poisoned planet and the poisons in our environment are also in ourselves—the poisons our industrial activities spew into the air, water, soil, and food are almost imperceptibly (“slowly,” as Rob Nixon would put it) absorbed into all of our bodies (through the process Stacy Alaimo described as “transcorporeality”). Biologist and literary activist Sandra Steingraber stated in “Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” (1997) that we must “cultivat[e] an ability to imagine” in order to appreciate the meaning of our post-industrial lives. In this essay, I focus on Ryan Walsh’s new collection of poetry, “Reckonings” (2019), and on Pramod K. Nayar’s recent ecocritical study, “Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny” (2017), in order to propose and define an evolving “poetics of toxicity.”en
dc.description.abstractDurante las casi dos décadas desde que Lawrence Buell definió y diseccionó el “discurso tóxico” en “Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond” (2001), la narración de la experiencia tóxica ha recibido una fructífera atención teórica y literaria. En todo el mundo los ciudadanos han llegado a un acuerdo con el hecho de que vivimos en un planeta envenenado y de que los venenos en nuestro entorno también están dentro de nosotros—los venenos que nuestras actividades industriales arrojan al aire, agua, suelo y comida están siendo absorbidos (por medio del proceso que Stacy Alaimo describió como “transcorporalidad”) casi imperceptiblemente (“lentamente”, como diría Rob Nixon). La bióloga y activista literaria Sandra Steingraber expuso en “Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment” (1997) que debemos “cultivar la habilidad para imaginar” para apreciar el significado de nuestras vidas post-industriales. En este ensayo me centro en la nueva colección de poesía de Ryan Walsh, “Reckonings” (2019), y en el reciente estudio ecocrítico de Pramod K. Nayar “Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny” (2017), con el fin de proponer y definir un “poética de la toxicidad” en evolución.es_ES
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dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversidad de Alcaláes_ES
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectPoetics of toxicityen
dc.subjectToxic discourseen
dc.subjectSlow violenceen
dc.subjectTranscorporealityen
dc.subjectEcoprecarityen
dc.subjectPoética de la toxicidades_ES
dc.subjectDiscurso tóxicoes_ES
dc.subjectViolencia lentaes_ES
dc.subjectTranscorporalidades_ES
dc.subjectEcoprecariedades_ES
dc.title"Cultivating an ability to imagine": Ryan Walsh's "Reckonings" and the poetics of toxicityen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen
dc.subject.ecienciaLiteraturaes_ES
dc.subject.ecienciaLiteratureen
dc.subject.ecienciaMedio ambientees_ES
dc.subject.ecienciaEnvironmental scienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3467
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.identifier.publicationtitleEuropean Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment = Revista Europea de Cultura, Literatura y Medioambiente
dc.identifier.publicationvolume11
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage161
dc.identifier.publicationissue2
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage154


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