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T1 “Gardening in Eden”: Wasted Lives, or Detoxic Identities in Gail AndersonDargatz’s Turtle Valley and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer
T2 “Ajardinando el Edén”: vidas malgastadas, o identidades desintoxicadas en Turtle Valley de Gail Anderson-Dargatz y Prodigal Summer de Barbara Kingsolver
A1 Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro Miguel
K1 Ecocriticism
K1 Gail Anderson-Dargatz
K1 Turtle Valley
K1 Barbara Kingsolver
K1 Prodigal Summer
AB This paper analyzes the inflection of a border-crossing ecological concern on the regionalcultures of settlement through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s Turtle Valley (2007) and BarbaraKingsolver’s Prodigal Summer (2000). Their engagement with the contingent position of thefarmers in the British Columbia Shuswap region, and the southern Appalachian ZebulonCounty resituates the self. The struggle for production is substituted by a revisionist at-titude that relocates (wo)men and nature in a sustainable coexistence that approaches thehuman species and others. The ecological awareness of these novels uses a postindustriallandscape where human bodies and lives exhibit the malaise inflicted on the environment;they increasingly become waste(d) and toxic, and their habitat becomes a threat, also ma-terialized in (post)natural catastrophes impelling the relocation of human communities, orbusiness reinvention. The human wastification of Eden is instrumental to launch a revisionthat detoxifies identity thanks to a remodeled bond with nature.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32171
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32171
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 16-may-2024