"Cultivando la habilidad de imaginar": Reckonings de Ryan Walsh y la poética de la toxicidad

Autores/as

  • Scott Slovic University of Idaho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3467

Palabras clave:

poética de la toxicidad, discurso tóxico, violencia lenta, transcorporalidad, ecoprecariedad

Resumen

      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.

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Biografía del autor/a

Scott Slovic, University of Idaho

Scott Slovic became professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho in the United States in 2012 after teaching for seventeen years at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he helped to create the well-known Graduate Program in Literature and Environment. The founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, he has edited the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment since 1995. His research covers many different aspects of American and international ecocriticism and environmental literature. At present he is working on such book projects as Fundamentals of Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature; Thinking Like Yucca Mountain: American Literature, Applied Ecocriticism, and the Practice of Sustainability; Numbers and Nerves: Information and Meaning in a World of Data; and Ecocriticism of the Global South.

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Publicado

2020-09-22

Número

Vol. 11 Núm. 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond

Sección

Artículos: Alimentos, plantas, y relaciones entre especies

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