Ecopocalyptic visions in Haitian and Mexican landscapes of exploitation

Champion, Giulia (2020) Ecopocalyptic visions in Haitian and Mexican landscapes of exploitation. In, Kendal, Z., Smith, A., Champion, G. and Milner, A. (eds.) Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction. Cham. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-162. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27893-9_7).

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Abstract

This chapter investigates Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée (Masters of the Dew, 1944) and Homero Aridjis’s La Leyenda de los soles (The Legend of the Suns, 1993) and ¿En quién piensas cuando haces el amor? (Of Whom Do You Think When You Make Love?, 1995). Despite their various contextual differences, these novels converge in their depictions of ecopocalyptic visions and utopian impulses. By considering the novels through the theory of postcolonial environmental ethics and in relation to the broader notion of environmental ethics and its “moral extentionism,” this chapter discusses the contemporary human and environmental crises of "postcolonial" countries as necessarily correlated, rather than as separate consequences of years of colonial and (neo-)imperialist exploitation of lands and communities.

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