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Towards a New Environmentalism: Indigeneity, Ethics and Ecology in Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller and Two Recent Ecocritical Studies
Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa ( IF <0.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2020.1743033
Gail Fincham

Starting with the premise that postcolonial writers are increasingly interested in aspects of indigenous thinking, this paper draws on recent ecocriticism to analyse Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller. In this novel, Llosa dramatises in fictional form the worldview of the Machiguenga Indians of Peru. He constructs the voices of two university friends in Lima: those of Saúl Zuratas and an unnamed narrator. Chapter by chapter, through their juxtaposed conversations, visits to the remote jungles of Cusco and Madre de Dios in eastern Peru, and Saúl’s narration of the stories he tells the Machiguengas, the reader encounters the worldview of this small isolated tribe. Their cosmology values and customs are revealed to be ecologically sensitive, offering an interconnected communal vision on which the survival of the ecosphere depends.

中文翻译:

迈向新环保主义:巴尔加斯·略萨的《讲故事的人》和最近两项生态批判研究中的本土性、伦理学和生态学

从后殖民作家对本土思想的各个方面越来越感兴趣的前提出发,本文利用最近的生态批评来分析马里奥·巴尔加斯·略萨的《讲故事的人》。在这部小说中,略萨以虚构的形式描绘了秘鲁马奇根加印第安人的世界观。他为利马的两个大学朋友构建了声音:Saúl Zuratas 和一位未透露姓名的叙述者的声音。一章一章,通过他们并列的对话,访问秘鲁东部库斯科和马德雷德迪奥斯的偏远丛林,以及索尔对他告诉马奇格恩加斯的故事的叙述,读者遇到了这个孤立的小部落的世界观。他们的宇宙观价值观和习俗被揭示为生态敏感,提供了生态圈生存所依赖的相互关联的共同愿景。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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