{"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":"77 1","pages":""},"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}
{"title":"Projecting utopian thought: The conceptualization of the “good Anthropocene” in Kim Stanley Robinson’s \"The Ministry for the Future\" (2020)","authors":"Ana Tejero-Marín","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92559","url":null,"abstract":"While the Anthropocene has traditionally been associated with apocalyptic images, the notion of the good Anthropocene, widely criticized since its origin, has emerged as its utopian counterpart. In his novel The Ministry for the Future (2020), Kim Stanley Robinson explicitly uses the name “good Anthropocene” to refer to the state of the world at the end of the story, more sustainable and equitable. This article examines the utopian and dystopian connotations of the (good) Anthropocene and analyzes how Robinson utilizes the term in his narrative; in particular, it focuses on his employment of narrative structure to convey the multiplicity of the Anthropocene, his preoccupation with discerning the socio-cultural origins of the epoch and his intention of conveying the positive future of the story as achievable through active hope and collaboration.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86396170","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":"Becoming (in)human. The search for an alternative present in Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk","authors":"Ewa Lukaszyk","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92216","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a reading of Helen Macdonald's non-fiction book H Is for Hawk, that focuses on the adoption of the temporal perspective of a predator (the instantaneousness of the attack and capture of the prey) instead of the typically human way of addressing the temporality spreading over a past, a present, and a future (memory, mourning, anxiety). Rethinking the inherited cultural practice of keeping and taming goshawks, the British writer narrates the process of mental merging with the female goshawk she trains. Through her engagement as an austringer (keeper of hawks), she also questions such categories as gender, class, and nationality. In parallel to her own experience, she reads the personal story of yet another transgressive austringer, the homosexual author T. H. White. This double line of vital/textual experience deconstructs the dominant cultural stance of heterosexual masculinity and sketches a peculiar queertopia. ","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87072537","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":"Cognitve (re)mapping: Superseding Utopian and Dystopian Space in Notes from a Coma","authors":"T. Moylan","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e93858","url":null,"abstract":"I suggest in this essay that affiliated cultural work can be found in the residual corners of the Western imaginary, such as Ireland, especially as Irish culture and politics has confronted the onslaught of disciplinary neoliberalism and xenophobic fascism in a series of rapid turns in the last two decades. From within a diverse project of tracking and tracing Irish science fictionality, I turn my attention to Mike McCormac´s Notes from a Coma (2005). Clearly a work of sf, but one contesting the Irish literary heritage and Irish society as well as the boundaries of utopian form, the book is not so much a utopian novel as much as it is a fictive meditation on the reality and the process of the utopian impulse.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74235540","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":"Contação de histórias e aliança multiespécie pela sobrevivência em MaddAddam, de Margaret Atwood","authors":"Suênio Stevenson Tomaz da Silva","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92632","url":null,"abstract":"Este artigo é resultado de minha pesquisa de doutorado cujo corpus foi a trilogia MaddAddam, de Margaret Atwood. Para esta proposta, foco minha análise sobre o terceiro romance da coletânea, também intitulado MaddAddam, em que nos é apresentado o desfecho dos enredos dos romances anteriores, a saber, Oryx and Crake (2003) e The year of the flood (2009). Em MaddAddam, publicado em 2013, Atwood especula um futuro em que a contação de histórias e a aliança entre seres humanos e não humanos consistem em estratégias de sobrevivência das espécies em um cenário pós-apocalítico. Para respaldar algumas das minhas reflexões, recorrerei às humanidades ambientais, sobretudo à ecocrítica, perspectiva teórica que me permite vislumbrar, dentre outras questões, como a espécie humana se reconfigura para garantir sua sobrevivência.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80417879","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":"The “I” and Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene","authors":"Raphael Albuquerque de Boer","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92778","url":null,"abstract":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 * Raphael Albuquerque de Boer is currently an adjunct professor at the Institute of Letters and Arts (ILA) at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). He holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies and a Master’s in English and Literatures in English from the Graduate Program in English (PPGI) at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. His research interests include film and media studies, representations and language(s). Email: raphaelfurg@gmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4775-9140. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92778","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80274719","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":"Desfazendo os desesperançosos mapas heteronormativos do presente com Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore","authors":"Ruan Nunes Silva","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92512","url":null,"abstract":"Considerando a prática política dos estudos queer, o presente trabalho investiga como dois livros de memórias de Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore permitem compreender uma “temporalidade de retidão” e suas formas de morte para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+. Centrando-se principalmente nos apontamentos de José Esteban Muñoz (2019), Sara Ahmed (2006) e Jack Halberstam (2005), uma leitura crítica das obras é realizada para sublinhar a reprodução de formas paradigmáticas de vida que produzem algumas orientações de vida como possíveis e corretas e outras como problemas a evitar. Ao final, argumenta-se que os escritos de Sycamore contestam e interrogam a estrutura presente e oferecem questionamentos para novos movimentos políticos para dissidentes de gênero e sexualidade.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79613192","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":"Melissa Sá","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92266","url":null,"abstract":"The conflict between humans and creatures considered non-humans is a major part of a particular trend in twenty-first-century dystopian novels written by women published in English. In these novels, storytelling is used to push on the boundaries of what being human means and therefore the ways humans live. The future in these dystopian scenarios is filled with spaces for resistance, community values and proposals for new ways of living. But to carve out these new worlds, a discussion on what is human and what is not precedes to show that any new form society may take needs to challenge the assumptions of our present day world. In the selected novels, that include Ursula Le Guin’s The Telling, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, when those initially considered non-humans tell stories, they are perceived as humans. However, instead of integrating the previous human culture and reproducing its practices, these new humans propose other forms of humanity with other social arrangements, beliefs, gender configurations, and culture. They point to how humanity is a plural and open concept, not a restrictive ideal, and on the ways we can envision possible futures once a more plural meaning of the word human prevails. Throughout the article I discuss briefly the traditional humanist view on humanity, how it appears on dystopian fiction and how it is challenged, the many ways these ideas are present in the corpus selected and how they are explored and blurred. Finally, I divide the selected novels into three groups according to how the meaning of storytelling in the text challenges the notion of human.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135670973","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":"(Post-)Modernism and Cyborg Writing in George Egerton’s “The Regeneration of Two” (1894)","authors":"Jéssica Katerine Molgero Da Rós, A. Fernandes","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e91809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e91809","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into account Rita Felski’s (1995) discussion on stereotypical representations of women in modernity and the New Woman movement, in this paper we analyse George Egerton’s short story “The Regeneration of Two” (1894) from the perspective of Donna Haraway’s cyborg imagery and the concept of cyborg writing. We demonstrate that “The Regeneration of Two” dialogues with Haraway’s proposition of a cyborg writing as it opposes an oppressive patriarchal system with the creation of a women’s community. To do so, we explore two main aspects of cyborg imagery present in the short story: the fractured identities and the community of political kinship, resulting in a subversive “cyborgian epiphany.” This epiphany informs Egerton’s progressive and intersectional representation of gender relations and of women’s writing part and parcel of the late 19th-century radical feminist New Woman movement.","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85706216","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 matéria escura das utopias: um estudo da configuração da utopia afrofuturista a partir de Pantera Negra de Ryan Coogler e “Pele de Emergência” de N.K Jemisin","authors":"Millena C. S. Portela, Maria Aracy Bonfim","doi":"10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2023.e92575","url":null,"abstract":"A literatura especulativa é um gênero que cresce de forma acelerada na contemporaneidade. Sua popularidade se deve à inserção de novas perspectivas e à promoção da ascensão de vozes nunca antes consideradas na tradição literária. Esse fenômeno gerou uma série de intricadas manifestações da arte literária, como é o caso da utopia preta e das narrativas de futuros pretos do movimento afrofuturista. O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar as perspectivas literárias especulativas ideais produzidas e/ou protagonizadas pelo povo preto. Desse modo, propomos um estudo analítico das configurações da utopia afrofuturista no filme Pantera Negra (2018), de Ryan Coogler, e do conto “Pele de Emergência” (2021), de N. K Jemisin. Para tal, buscamos aporte nas obras e contribuições teóricas de Zygmunt Bauman (2000), Marilena Chauí (2008), Gregory Claeys (2013), David Harvey (2008), Renato Noguera (2012), André Prévost (2015), Raymond Williams (1978), Ytasha L. Womack (2013) e Alex Zamalin (2019).","PeriodicalId":43226,"journal":{"name":"Ilha do Desterro-A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86742709","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}