dc.contributor.author | Slovic, Scott | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-12T08:42:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-12T08:42:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, v. 11, n. 2 (2020), pp. 154-161 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2171-9594 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45734 | |
dc.description.abstract | For 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.abstract | Durante 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 |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | Universidad de Alcalá | es_ES |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Poetics of toxicity | en |
dc.subject | Toxic discourse | en |
dc.subject | Slow violence | en |
dc.subject | Transcorporeality | en |
dc.subject | Ecoprecarity | en |
dc.subject | Poética de la toxicidad | es_ES |
dc.subject | Discurso tóxico | es_ES |
dc.subject | Violencia lenta | es_ES |
dc.subject | Transcorporalidad | es_ES |
dc.subject | Ecoprecariedad | es_ES |
dc.title | "Cultivating an ability to imagine": Ryan Walsh's "Reckonings" and the poetics of toxicity | en |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | en |
dc.subject.eciencia | Literatura | es_ES |
dc.subject.eciencia | Literature | en |
dc.subject.eciencia | Medio ambiente | es_ES |
dc.subject.eciencia | Environmental science | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3467 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.identifier.publicationtitle | European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment = Revista Europea de Cultura, Literatura y Medioambiente | |
dc.identifier.publicationvolume | 11 | |
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage | 161 | |
dc.identifier.publicationissue | 2 | |
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage | 154 | |