‘La Geografía Interior de Casa’: la ética ecofeminista de Daphne Marlatt en su novela 'Taken'

Eva Darias Beautell

doi:10.14198/fem.2005.5.11

Autores/as

Eva Darias Beautell University of La Laguna, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2005.5.11

Palabras clave:

Marlatt, Daphne, Literatura canadiense, Ética feminista, Ecofeminismo, Maternalismo, Cuerpo femenino

Resumen

En este ensayo, me propongo analizar las señas de una ética feminista en la novela Taken de Daphne Marlatt, texto que, basándose en la materialidad/ maternalidad del lenguaje, reconsidera la relación del sujeto (femenino) con el territorio, el lugar y el espacio, a la vez que propone una forma de maternalismo situada en la intersección entre feminismo y ecología. Mi lectura intentará elucidar la importancia de esta propuesta. Frente a una cartografía bélica, de ocupación y de violencia, el texto de Marlatt nos ofrece una vía de escape a través del paisaje, una geografía del cuerpo femenino basada en el maternalismo y en la fusión del cuerpo con el medio ambiente.

Financiación

The research conducted for this essay has been possible thanks to the generous help of the Government of Canada, who awarded me with a Research Faculty Grant, with which I was able to work at the University of British Columbia in the summer of 2004. I am also indebted to the Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes (Gobierno de Canarias), for its funding of the three-year research project «Revisiones del canon en Canadá y Estados Unidos, Literatura, Cultura y Género (1975-2000)».

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