Del espacio al lugar y justicia ambiental: una propuesta de lectura ecocrítica de “Nos han dado la tierra” de Juan Rulfo

Abstract

Latin American literary studies have not delved deeply into the relationship between literature and the environment. Thus, this article undertakes an ecocritical reading of Juan Rulfo’s short story “They’ve given us the land”. Studies on this short story focus, in general, on narratology; although we also discuss this aspect by analyzing the spatial dimension, we do so while exploring ecocriticism’s distinction of the terms space and place. In addition, we examine environmental justice, in the belief that this short story underscores the fact that human culture is connected to the physical world.