“El mundo es bello todavía”: una lectura eco-filosófica de la trilogía Victims de Eugene McCabe
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https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-11702Palabras clave:
Eugene McCabe, Victims Trilogy, el conflicto irlandés, eco-filosofía, lugarResumen
Este artículo se centra en la representación literaria del ‘Conflicto’ norirlandés en la trilogía Victims del escritor, dramaturgo y guionista de televisión irlandés Eugene McCabe. Al haber pasado la mayor parte de su vida en la granja familiar situada en la frontera de Monaghan y Fermanagh, entre Irlanda del Norte e Irlanda, McCabe conocía a fondo los odios, el fanatismo y los fundamentalismos arraigados en la historia de sus gentes, y su ficción refleja la tragedia humana que hay detrás de la violencia. Este artículo se fundamenta en un enfoque eco-filosófico para sugerir que la poética de McCabe, al retratar el conflicto entre el entorno natural y el cultural, presenta una crítica del patriarcado antropocéntrico que subyace esta violenta disputa desde una perspectiva liberal y humanista. El universo literario de McCabe, que evoca paisajes naturales y culturales, sintetiza el sentido absurdo de separar los territorios mediante falsas fronteras políticas, marginalizando el valor de la biodiversidad y de la bio-región a la vez que ignorando la unión vital de la humanidad. Por lo tanto, aunque los relatos de McCabe son específicos desde una perspectiva cultural y política, al resaltar la capacidad de destrucción del ser humano, resultan atemporales y universales.
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