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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2021  
         
  Article:   ECOCRITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND NARRATIVE TENSIONS IN BELÉN GOPEGUI’S SNOW WHITE’S FATHER / PERSPECTIVAS ECOCRÍTICAS Y TENSIONES NARRATIVAS EN EL PADRE DE BLANCANIEVES DE BELÉN GOPEGUI.

Authors:  IULIA BOBĂILĂ.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.10

Published Online: 2021-12-15
Published Print: 2021-12-30
pp. 161-171

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Abstract: Ecocritical Perspectives and Narrative Tensions in Belén Gopegui’s Snow White’s Father. The relationship between literature and ecology has come to the fore in the last few decades and has encompassed several dimensions approached within the evolving framework of ecocriticism. In this context, our purpose is twofold: to explore the possibilities of an ecocritical reading of Belén Gopegui’s novel Snow White’s Father and to highlight the way in which the characters’ uncomfortable questions, the fully-articulated answers and those still latent make up an intricate network of narrative tensions. At the core of the novel lies an all-pervading need of self-questioning and collective reassessment of values, interactions and ethical limits. Its characters are marked by doubt and hesitations regarding the reasons that make them strive for a change or defend the status quo they are fond of. Gopegui is able to perform a delicately-balanced walk on a tightrope between stern anti-capitalist principles and complex human motivations.

Keywords: system, ideology, capitalism, ecocriticism, collective subject
 
         
     
         
         
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