Guarecerse en la Tierra: la visión Gaia de Derek Mahon

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12359

Palabras clave:

Derek Mahon, Bruno Latour, poesía irlandesa contemporánea, Ecocrítica, Gaia

Resumen

El presente ensayo analiza desde un punto de vista ecológico las cuatro últimas colecciones poéticas de Derek Mahon, desde Life on Earth (2008) hasta Washing Up (2020).   Mantengo que la creciente atención de Mahon a la destrucción del medio ambiente a manos del hombre conlleva el abandono de un mundo capitalista obsesionado con los beneficios en pro de la contemplación silenciosa de la naturaleza, que Mahon invoca a través de la figura de Gaia. Tomando en consideración la revisión de Bruno Latour de la hipótesis sobre Gaia de James Lovelock, demuestro cómo la poesía reciente de Mahon representa un intento por conectar cuidadosamente con el misterio y la mística de la Tierra, entendida como una red de agentes interrelacionados. Este punto de vista prosaico, al que Latour se refiere como terreno, caracteriza a los Terrestres: los que consideran el medio ambiente como una dimensión material, infinitamente compleja, en la que la humanidad es un sujeto entre muchos otros. Mahon evoca en su obra esa perspectiva terrena privilegiada de los Terrestres, contrarrestando así la hegemonía del capitalismo y de la tecnología en un esfuerzo por alcanzar los ritmos pulsionales de lo que él denomina “the still living whole”.

Biografía del autor/a

Wit Pietrzak

Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British Literature at the University of Łódź, Poland. He specialises in modernist and contemporary Irish and British poetry, theory of literature as well as ecocriticism. His recent publications include The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats (2017), Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry (2022) and “All Will Be Swept Away”: Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon (2022).

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Publicado

17-03-2024

Cómo citar

Pietrzak, W. (2024). Guarecerse en la Tierra: la visión Gaia de Derek Mahon. Estudios Irlandeses, 19(1), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2024-12359