Decolonial hope against the fourth Industrial Revolution in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light (2013)

  1. Mónica Fernández Jiménez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

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Revista:
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

ISSN: 1133-309X,  2253-8410

Año de publicación: 2022

Número: 26

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.12795/REN.2022.I26.12 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos

Resumen

Este artículo explora la última novela de Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light (2013), como una respuesta a las ideologías modernas/coloniales que siguen emanando de las predicciones de una Cuarta Revolución Industrial. Tras un análisis del trabajo de Danticat como literatura del hemisferio americano en vez de literatura meramente caribeña o haitiana, este artículo argumenta que el retrato de la naturaleza, el medio ambiente y el pasado que el texto realiza se ajusta a visiones de esperanza decolonial más que al progreso linear de la Cuarta Revolución Industrial. A través de las historias de una pequeña comunidad en Haití, Claire of the Sea Light también plasma la degradación medioambiental que asola al país y lo hace en relación a las fuerzas externas que lo afectan, presentando una colonialidad del clima asociada a dinámicas raciales del hemisferio americano. La amalgamación de narrativas humanas y medioambientales en la novela sin embargo ofrece posibilidades de resistencia y una visión esperanzadora del país basada en ecologías decoloniales y epistemología caribeña. Darles igual importancia a las historias de los actores no-humanos en la novela la posiciona fuera de la tradición moderna/colonial y abraza una poética decolonial que ofrece esperanza en un mundo que ha demostrado reproducir su propia colonialidad a medida que desarrolla nueva tecnología.

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