Se il Mare del Nord arriva e l’Olanda scompare. L’ecofiction di Eva Meijer
In the uchronic novel with dystopian/(post)apocalyptic features Zee Nu (Sea Now) by Dutch philosopher Eva Meijer (2022) the Netherlands is submerged by an exceptional high tide that does not recede. The government reacts slowly and inadequately: the country is flooded and the surviving Dutch become climate refugees in Germany and Belgium. A scientist, an activist and a young writer embark on a boat (later on, with a dog too) in order to uncover the causes of this extreme phenomenon and to pay tribute to dead people, animals and to the devastated ecosystems. In this article I focus on how the n... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
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Dipartimento di Lingue
Letterature e Culture Moderne - LILEC – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna |
Schlagwörter: | ecofiction / Eva Meijer / nonhuman agency / response-ability / ecocriticism / Dutch literature |
Sprache: | Italian |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27061626 |
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Link(s) : | https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/19135 |
In the uchronic novel with dystopian/(post)apocalyptic features Zee Nu (Sea Now) by Dutch philosopher Eva Meijer (2022) the Netherlands is submerged by an exceptional high tide that does not recede. The government reacts slowly and inadequately: the country is flooded and the surviving Dutch become climate refugees in Germany and Belgium. A scientist, an activist and a young writer embark on a boat (later on, with a dog too) in order to uncover the causes of this extreme phenomenon and to pay tribute to dead people, animals and to the devastated ecosystems. In this article I focus on how the novel fictionalizes environmental issues and foregrounds key issues of contemporary philosophers of the Anthropocene as Bruno Latour and Donna Haraway: the relationship between human and nonhuman, the agency of nonhuman and the ethics of response-ability. ; Nel romanzo ucronico con tratti distopici/(post)apocalittici Zee Nu (Mare Ora) della filosofa olandese Eva Meijer (2022), i Paesi Bassi sono sommersi da un’alta marea eccezionale che non recede. Il governo reagisce in modo lento e inadeguato: la gran parte del paese è sommerso e gli olandesi sopravvissuti diventano profughi climatici in Germania e Belgio. Una scienziata, un’attivista e una giovane scrittrice salgono su una barca (più tardi, anche con un cane) per scoprire le cause del fenomeno estremo e tributare un omaggio a persone e animali perduti e habitat devastati. Nel presente articolo mi soffermo su come il romanzo tematizzi questioni ambientali e finzionalizzi concetti chiave del dibattito filosofico contemporaneo di pensatori dell’Antropocene come Bruno Latour e Donna Haraway: il rapporto tra umano e non umano, l’agency del non umano e l’etica della responso-abilità.