RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Trans-species collaborations in response to social, economic, and environmental violence in Rosa Montero’s "Lágrimas en la lluvia" and "El peso del corazón" T2 Colaboraciones trans-especie en respuesta a la violencia social, económica y medioambiental en "Lágrimas en la lluvia" y "El peso del corazón" de Rosa Montero A1 Maryanne L., Leone K1 Ecocriticism K1 Ecofeminism K1 Feminist economics K1 Rosa Montero K1 Spanish narrative K1 Slow violence K1 Ecocrítica K1 Ecofeminismo K1 Económica feminista K1 Violencia lenta K1 Narrativa española K1 Literatura K1 Literature K1 Medio ambiente K1 Environmental science AB This paper addresses Iberian ecocritical approaches and cultural responses to ecological degradation through an examination of Rosa Montero’s futuristic novels "Lágrimas en la lluvia" (2011) and its sequel "El peso del corazón" (2015). In these works, contaminated natural resources, cloning, and teleportation for interplanetary travel contribute to new social hierarchies, existential crises, and heightened xenophobia in Europe, now part of the United States of the Earth. This study places particular emphasis on the novels’ criticisms of a North-South divide, in which the use and distribution of natural resources reflects the inequitable burden of environmental contamination and economic exploitation on the world’s southern zones. Montero’s novels posit that interspecies alliances across different geographical regions respond to these inequities. In this analysis, Rob Nixon’s ecocritical work on slow environmental violence, Spanish economist Amaia Pérez Orozco’s writings on feminist economics and collaborative care, and the theory and activism of various ecofeminists underscore Montero’s critique of a global economic system that exploits the environment and the marginalized. These theorists and activists argue that social justice, sustainability, and a non-materialist conception of well-being must replace the dominant androcentric approaches to economics and to social relations, which foster growing inequity and environmental contamination. PB Universidad de Alcalá SN 2171-9594 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29605 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29605 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 29-mar-2024