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T1 Tears in Rain: An Ecogothic Hardboiled Tribute to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
T2 Lágrimas en la lluvia de Rosa Montero: un homenaje ecogótico de estilo hardboiled a ¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? De Philip K. Dick
A1 Ramón García, Emilio
K1 Dystopia
K1 Postmodern EcoGothic
K1 Hard-boiled
K1 Rosa Montero
K1 Tears in Rain
AB Tears in Rain is set in Madrid in 2109, a large city in a heavily polluted dystopic world whichhas seen several wars, alien contacts, genetic engineering, teletransportation, pollution anddramatic climate changes due to ecophobia and a limitless appetite for resource exploitation.It is a world in which the management, privatization and monopolization of vital resourcesby large multinationals have caused scarcity; exacerbating the environmental injustice towardsthose who contribute least to it. Mixing the SF with the Postmodern EcoGothic and the hard-boiled model, this fictional society is immersed in a civilizational crisis that affects our ownconception as subjects. This situation of environmental injustice translates into social tensionsand the marginalization of those humans, replicants and aliens who are forced to live in themost degraded areas. These underprivileged marginalized beings serve to renegotiate humanidentity, but also to ignite fanatical fundamentalisms that define their identity in aggressiveopposition to the ‘other’. The goal of this article is to explore fear, the dissolution of the self, theconstruction of peoples as monstruous others, the preoccupation of bodies which are modified and nature as a space of crisis as markers of Postmodern EcoGothic in Rosa Montero’s novel.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 23-nov-2024