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T1 “None of Them Knows About Floods or Anything About the Rivers:” Monstrous Kinships and Agency in Michael McDowell’s The Flood and The Levee
T2 “Ninguno de ellos sabe sobre inundaciones o sobre ríos”: parentescos monstruosos y agencialidad en The Flood and the Levee de Michael McDowell
A1 Calio, Gianluca
K1 New Materialism
K1 Kinship
K1 Agency
K1 Southern Gothic
K1 Hybridity
AB This paper explores the disruption of the human/non-human binary in Michael McDowell’sBlackwater series, focusing on how the character of Elinor Dammert challenges traditionaldistinctions between humans and environment. Set in the Southern Gothic landscape ofLower Alabama, the analysis scrutinizes Elinor’s relationship with the region’s fluvial environ-ment, emphasizing her role as a complex, shape-shifting gothic figure. Emerging mysteriouslyfrom the river after a flood, Elinor’s actions reflect a deep connection with both the humanand non-human worlds, as she intervenes against anthropogenic alterations, particularly de-forestation and proposed hydrogeological projects. By highlighting Elinor’s efforts to disruptdestructive human practices, the paper argues that her character can be seen as attemptingto create kinship between humans and the landscape of Perdido, embodying an ecoGothicfigure that transcends moral binaries. Elinor’s interventions will therefore reveal an alternativeform of ecological agency that emphasizes kin-making rather than domination or revenge.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/39784
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-dic-2024