{"title":"The Earlie King and The Kid in Yellow: uma versão pós-apocalíptica da Irlanda","authors":"Rejane de Souza Ferreira","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92229","url":null,"abstract":"The Earlie King & The Kid in Yellow (2018), de Danny Denton, narra o mito da destruição da Irlanda através do fogo e o colapso digital após o país enfrentar anos de chuvas ininterruptas causadas pela catástrofe ambiental deixada principalmente pela indústria farmacêutica. O propósito deste artigo é investigar como essa obra coaduna e desafia ao mesmo tempo a tradição ecocrítica e distópica produzida na língua inglesa dos centros hegemônicos e a tradição literária de seu próprio país. Para tanto eu utilizo quatro divisões didáticas: 1) breve resumo de como o Antropoceno tem sido representado na literatura de língua inglesa; 2) a contribuição da distopia para representação das alterações climáticas na literatura; 3) panorama histórico da literatura da Irlanda e 4) contextualização da obra de Denton em análise. Nesta última parte, arremato com a observação de que o romance não propõe alternativa para solucionar os problemas do Antropoceno, mas alerta para o colapso que estamos na iminência de vivenciar","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75251021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming-of-Age as Ecocitizens in Young Adult Climate Fiction: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017","authors":"Chiara Xausa","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92592","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the threat of environmental destruction in YA dystopian imagination by providing a close reading of Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries 2015 (2008) and The Carbon Diaries 2017 (2010) that particularly considers whether these texts espouse radical social change and whether they offer hope or despair. First, the article demonstrates that Lloyd’s novels do not merely portray climate change as a backdrop for human drama, but rather attempt to disentangle the environmental crisis from the post-political sphere (Swyngedouw 2010) where humanity as a whole is under threat. While its protagonists learn to cope with ecological uncertainty and the multidimensional challenges of climate change, indeed, they also come to terms with the social and political dimensions of climate change. Second, the article claims that one of the most important features of these two novels is their attempt to explore the challenges faced by the younger generations when dealing with the contemporary climate challenge. Young people in fact bear a disproportionate burden of the environmental crises the world faces today and are subject to climate anxiety. Moreover, they are not only disproportionately impacted by climate change, but their agency and visions of the future are often placed under erasure discursively. Lloyd’s novels, instead, provide a young adult perspective on the uneven universality of climate change. Finally, the article suggests that the presence of utopian hope at the conclusion of the novels does not provide a consoling and comforting happy ending but helps readers to come to terms with an imperfect world. The article’s close reading of The Carbon Diaries 2015 and 2017, therefore, attempts to underscore the novels’ projection of a possible future where a radical systemic change is envisaged.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90565401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resenha Furos no futuro: psicanálise e utopia","authors":"Cleyton Andrade, Nathália Bezerra","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93090","url":null,"abstract":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 * Psicanalista, Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e Literatura da Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL); membro da Escola Brasileira de Psicanálise e da Associação Mundial de Psicanálise; coordenador do Laboratório de Psicanálise, Clínica e Estudos Interculturais (ECLIPsi); autor do livro “Lacan chinês: para além das estruturas e dos nós” vencedor do prêmio Jabuti Psicologia, Psicanálise e Comportamento em 2016. E-mail: cleyton.andrade@ip.ufal.br. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1515-6959. ** Mestranda em Estudos Literários no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e Literatura da Universidade Federal de Alagoas. E-mail: nathaliabezerra109@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2609-6798. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93090","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74698017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“What a Splendid World We Ruined”: the Precarious Presents and Posthuman Futures of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033","authors":"Marta Korbel","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92223","url":null,"abstract":"Speculative fiction is a particularly relevant genre at the moment when, apart from the troubling global impact of late-modern phenomena, the ongoing pandemic and the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War have raised universal concern. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of two novels which describe a postapocalyptic world after a deadly plague and a nuclear conflict, respectively: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2004 [2003]) and Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033 (2010 [2005]). It approaches the texts as critiques of late-modern neoliberal capitalism, employing the theory by Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck and Mark Fisher. Additionally, it scrutinises the representation of the neoliberal subject in Atwood’s book and utilises Svetlana Boym’s reflection on nostalgia in post-Soviet Russia to comment on Glukhovsky’s work. Lastly, it examines the posthuman alternative the two authors present for the deeply flawed human social orders.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87723007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No one came from Outside: A critique of the abject-Lovecraftian foundations of dark ecology","authors":"Jorge León Casero, J. Urabayen","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92273","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, philosophical reflection on the utopian has focused on the analysis of the way in which the future-possible and the radically unknown or “other” influence our present. Specifically, accelerationism and Object-oriented Ontology have identified horror and weird fiction in general, and H. P. Lovecraft in particular, as the privileged field from which to access a radically anti-humanist absolute exteriority (Outside) with the aim of developing a new anti-species worldview, one which Timothy Morton calls “Dark Ecology.” This article analyzes the philosophical foundations of this worldview, showing the exclusive and proto-fascist character it harbors, which is why it should be clearly separated from other post-humanisms and/or new materialisms based on the hybridization and interconnection characteristic of relational ontologies.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79038401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Up the river, into the dark: textual play and dystopian gloom in Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro","authors":"Andre Cardoso","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92681","url":null,"abstract":"The dystopian character of Joca Reiners Terron’s A morte e o meteoro (2019) is indissociable from its critique of colonialism. But while the novel makes frequent references to the violent methods of exploitation that characterized American colonization, it mostly relies on allusions to different literary traditions—including gothic fiction, the adventure novel, and science fiction—in its depiction of colonialism. The dialogue with Heart of Darkness plays a significant role in A morte e o meteoro, which to a large extent is a critical rereading of Conrad’s novella. This article examines how this appropriation of textual and cultural paradigms shapes the dystopian outlook of the novel, while also offering alternatives to the hopelessness that defines its fictional world.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85163147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project","authors":"D. Suvin","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93859","url":null,"abstract":"By offering a reading of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, and of the post-Aeschylus tradition of the myth of Prometheus which highlights its revisions as imagined by Karl Marx and Percy Shelley, among others, this paper seeks to explore how to grasp, amid our danger and despair, the prominent poetic and cognitive view of a similar cataclysm from the past, as a lesson to the present. The route to do so encompasses a revisitation of the connections between theatre and democracy in ancient Greece; a consideration of the variations of the themes of knowledge, injustice and tyranny, material civilization and its control and the unbowed personal will to resist oppression, all evoked by the myth of Prometheus; and teasing out the main lineaments of a meaning for the play for an endangered Athenian democracy, as staged around 440 as well as for authors who have recycled its main theme throughout centuries, and finally for us today. It ends by giving pride of place to a Promethean hope, a long hope, arisen from suffering and wedded to cognition, which has crossed centuries and reached our times in urgency.\u0000The work is, of course, a provisional statement: a contribution.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75446819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virginia Woolf em outra cena modernista: por novas leituras de Freshwater: a comedy","authors":"Victor Santiago, D. Pinho","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92232","url":null,"abstract":"Este artigo objetiva inserir Freshwater: A Comedy (1923/1935), único experimento teatral assinado pela escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, nos debates em torno da cena modernista, mobilizados em leituras críticas de seu amplo projeto literário. É consenso na crítica especializada que a obra de Woolf coaduna o estético e o político e que seus textos modernistas, além de brincadeiras e experimentos performáticos, questionam verdades estanques do pensamento ocidental, especialmente no que se refere a imbricações entre gêneros literários e performances de gênero nas transições críticas entre os termos “avant-garde”, “modernista”, e “pós-modernista” (GOLDMAN, 2004; WHITWORTH, 2010). Contudo, a peça Freshwater não figura como objeto de análise de muitos estudos dedicados à obra de Woolf. Então, este trabalho mostrará que essa comédia da autora em foco pode contribuir para releituras contemporâneas do modernismo, especialmente se lida como uma de suas intervenções vanguardistas, marcadas pelo pós-vitorianismo (ELLIS, 2007) de seu projeto literário.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76837939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"George Ayres Mousinho","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92578","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this article is to investigate Ranald MacDougall’s The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) in their imaginations of disaster and apocalyptic futures. I aim to bring technical and narrative aspects of film in order to identify themes and speculative explorations of nuclear war and post-nuclear survival, emphasising political and social discussions that can be found in both films. Finding their singularities and similarities is part of my focus here, as these productions were made during the height of the nuclear scare of the Cold War in the United States and contain critical – and satirical – approaches to common themes found in apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic fiction of the time, each with their particular shifts.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135671102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Permanecer com o problema: outros modos de habitar o mundo em “Salmo para um robô peregrino”, de Becky Chambers","authors":"M. Penteado, Jade Bueno Arbo","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92220","url":null,"abstract":"A partir de uma leitura do romance Salmo para um robô peregrino (2022), de Becky Chambers, o presente trabalho busca refletir sobre a capacidade da ficção científica de criar outras formas de habitar o mundo e como essa literatura pode nos auxiliar a pensar alternativas para vivermos – e morrermos – melhor neste momento marcado por crises. Para desenvolver tal reflexão, o estudo será pautado pela discussão de Donna Haraway (2016) sobre SF e irá explorar as questões de vulnerabilidade de Judith Butler (2019; 2021), de ficção como bolsa de Ursula Le Guin (1989) e a discussão sobre o cuidado, como desenvolvida por Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2012; 2017), a fim de entender como o gênero da ficção científica pode nos ajudar a permanecer com o problema e nos auxiliar a pensar em maneiras mais harmônicas, inclusivas e cuidadosas de habitar o mundo.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84071911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}