Call of the wild and the ethics of narrative strategies

• Autores: Roman Bartosch
• Localización: Ecozon@ [Ecozona]: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, ISSN-e 2171-9594, Vol. 1, N. 2, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Greening across borders), págs. 87-96
• Idioma: inglés
• Enlaces
  • Texto completo
• Resumen
  • español

    ¿Qué puede aportar el análisis de estructuras narrativas a la comprensión de qué es lo que produce la "medioambientalidad" de un texto? Al leer "Call of the wild" desde una perspectiva narratológica y en relación al historicismo de su contexto discursivo, este artículo buscar aclarar cómo las estrategias narrativas se presentan a una lectura centrada en lo ecológico -incluso a pesar de la aparente orientación ética del texto. El recorrido discursivo así establecido permite una negociación textual de convicciones éticas divergentes y de aspectos de compasión y del hecho de dar voz a un animal. Finalmente, la lectura e interpretación de textos puede por lo tanto describirse como una "ética aplicada" (Iovino 41) cuyas características este artículo busca describir como "ética de estrategias narrativas".

  • English

    How can the analysis of narrative structures contribute to the understanding of what makes a text's "environmentality" (see Buell 2005:25)? By reading Call of the Wild from a narratological perspective and against the historicist foil of its discursive context, this paper seeks to illuminate how strategies of narration lend to an eco-centred reading - even despite the text's apparent ethical orientation. The discursive circuit thus established enables a textual negotiation of diverging ethical convictions and aspects of compassion and giving voice to an animal. Eventually, reading and interpreting texts can thus be described as an "applied ethics" (Iovino 2010: 41) the features of which this essay seeks to describe as the "ethics of narrative strategies".

• Referencias bibliográficas
  • Assmann, Jan. "Collective Memory and Cultural Identity". New German Critique 65 (1995): 125‐33. Print.
  • Auerbach, Jonath. Male Call. Becoming Jack London. Durham/London: Duke UP, 1996. Print.
  • Buel, Lawrence. The Environmental imagination. Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge. MA: Harvard UO,...
  • Buel, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism. Environmental Crisis a Imagination. Malden/Oxford/Victoria: Blackwell Publishing,...
  • Clayton Lawrence. "The Ghost Dog. A Motif in 'T , he Call of the Wild'.”Jack London Newsletter 5 (1972): 158. Print.
  • Dickey, James. "Introduction [to Jack London]." The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories. Ed. Andrew Sinclair. London...
  • Fudge, Erica. Animal. London: Reaction Books, 2002.
  • Iovino, Serenella. "Ecocriticism and a Non‐Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities"....
  • Kamboureli, Smaro. "The Limits of the Ethical Turn: Troping towards the Other, Yann Martel, and Self". University of...
  • Kershaw, Alex. Jack London. A Life. London: HarperCollins, 1997. Print
  • London, Jack. The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories. Ed. Andrew Sinclair. London& New York: Pinguin, 1993. Print.
  • London, Jack. The Sea­Wolf. 1904.New York Bantam Dell, 2007. Print
  • Phillips, Dana. The Truth of Ecology. Nature, Culture, and Literature in America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003. Print.
  • Tavernier‐Courbin, Jacqueline. "The Call of the Wild and The Jungle: Jack London's and Upton Sinclair's Animal and Human Jungles"....
  • Wolfe, Cary. "Human, All Too Human: 'Animal Studies' and the Humanities." PMLA 124.2 (2009): 564‐75. Print.
  • Zapf, Hubert. "Literature as Cultural Ecology. Notes Towards a Functional Theory of Imaginative Texts with Examples from American...
  • Zapf, Hubert. "Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts". New Literary History 39 (2009): 847‐868. Print.