Los relatos de la materia en dos textos post-apocalípticos

Authors

  • María José Buteler Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Keywords:

post-apocalytic, fictional texts, material ecocriticism

Abstract

In this work we are interested in exploring the agency of matter to tell stories in two fictional texts from the materialist ecocriticism: “There Will Come Soft Rains” (1950) by Ray Bradbury and “La carretera” (2006) by Cormac McCarthy. Both stories present a post-apocalyptic landscape resulting from a nuclear disaster that is not specifically mentioned in any of the texts. In Bradbury's tale, human and animal life has completely disappeared from the face of the earth, while in McCarthy's novel only a few human beings are left trying to survive in a barren and inhospitable environment resulting from a nuclear holocaust.

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References

Bennett, Jane “The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter” (2004). Political Theory, Vol. 32, (3), 347- 372. Web. 6 de junio de 2015.

Bradbury, Ray. “There Will Come Soft Rains”. Stories of Ourselves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 150-155.

McCarthy, Cormac. La carretera. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, Mondadori, 2007.

Iovino, Serenella y Serpil Oppermann. “Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency and Models of Narrativity”. Ecozon@. (2012) Vol. 3, N.° 1. Web. 23 de mayo de 2015.

--- Material Ecocriticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.

Published

2021-11-30

How to Cite

Los relatos de la materia en dos textos post-apocalípticos. (2021). Revista De Culturas Y Literaturas Comparadas, 11. https://revistas.psi.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/35759