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T1 “And This is What I Saw”: (Un)Natural Waste in Cathy Park Hong’s “Fable of the Last Untouched Town”
T2 “Y esto es lo que vi”: desechos (in)naturales en “Fable of the Last Untouched Town” de Cathy Park Hong
A1 Praga, Martín
K1 e-waste
K1 ecopoetics
K1 strange strangers
K1 Cathy Park Hong
K1 Timothy Morton
AB At its most philosophical, poetry can help us imagine alternative realities. In “Fable ofthe Last Untouched Town,” Cathy Park Hong manages to complicate current notions ofnature by way of an unusual form of futuristic waste. Through the analysis of the poem,this article aims, on the one hand, to show how works of poetry can reflect and denouncesome of the many ugly aspects of reality. Particularly, Hong can be said to draw in her poeman allegory of the pressing issue of e-waste. On the other, I intend to highlight how poeticimaginations can shake certain assumptions regarding those contemporary conceptions ofnature and problematize the humanistic tendency in new materialisms and object-orientedtheories. Indeed, an understanding of waste as the threshold which separates us from Naturemight better equip us when facing the imminent change of paradigm that looms over ourunderstanding of our place in the world.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32170
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32170
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-may-2024