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dc.contributor.authorHowes, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-24T14:40:53Z
dc.date.available2023-03-24T14:40:53Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationHowes, Christina Angela. “The world is still beautiful”: an eco-philosophical reading of Eugene McCabe’s victims trilogy. Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, 2023, 18, p. 172-183. Disponible en: <https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2023/03/the-world-is-still-beautiful-an-eco-philosophical-reading-of-eugene-mccabes-victims-trilogy-2/>. Fecha de acceso: 24 mar. 2023. DOI: 10.24162/EI2023-11702ca
dc.identifier.issn1699-311Xca
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12328/3641
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on Irish writer, playwright and television screenwriter Eugene McCabe’s fictional representation of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ in his trilogy Victims, published in the collection Heaven Lies about Us (2005). Living most of his life on his family farm on the Monaghan/Fermanagh border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, McCabe had a deep understanding of the historically entrenched hatreds, bigotry and fundamentalisms of its inhabitants, and his fiction reflects the human tragedy underlying the violence. This paper draws on an eco-philosophical framework to suggest that by capturing the entanglement between the natural and cultural place-world McCabe’s poetics offers, from a liberal humanist perspective, an indictment of anthropocentric patriarchy at the root of violent dispute. McCabe’s literary world, evoking natural and cultural landscapes, encapsulates the absurdity of isolating territories via false political borders, marginalizing the value of bioregion and diversity and ignoring the vital oneness of humanity. Thus, though McCabe’s short stories are indeed culturally and politically specific, in shedding light on the self-destructiveness of human behaviour they are ultimately timeless and universal.en
dc.description.abstractEste artículo se centra en la representación literaria del ‘Conflicto’ norirlandés en la trilogía Victims del escritor, dramaturgo y guionista de televisión irlandés Eugene McCabe. Al haber pasado la mayor parte de su vida en la granja familiar situada en la frontera de Monaghan y Fermanagh, entre Irlanda del Norte e Irlanda, McCabe conocía a fondo los odios, el fanatismo y los fundamentalismos arraigados en la historia de sus gentes, y su ficción refleja la tragedia humana que hay detrás de la violencia. Este artículo se fundamenta en un enfoque eco-filosófico para sugerir que la poética de McCabe, al retratar el conflicto entre el entorno natural y el cultural, presenta una crítica del patriarcado antropocéntrico que subyace esta violenta disputa desde una perspectiva liberal y humanista. El universo literario de McCabe, que evoca paisajes naturales y culturales, sintetiza el sentido absurdo de separar los territorios mediante falsas fronteras políticas, marginalizando el valor de la biodiversidad y de la bioregión a la vez que ignorando la unión vital de la humanidad. Por lo tanto, aunque los relatos de McCabe son específicos desde una perspectiva cultural y política, al resaltar la capacidad de destrucción del ser humano, resultan atemporales y universales.es
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dc.language.isoengca
dc.publisherEstudios Irlandesesca
dc.relation.ispartofElectronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studiesca
dc.relation.ispartofseries18
dc.relation.urihttps://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2023/03/the-world-is-still-beautiful-an-eco-philosophical-reading-of-eugene-mccabes-victims-trilogy-2/ca
dc.rights2023 by Christina Angela Howes | This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged for access.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject.otherEugene McCabees
dc.subject.otherTrilogía de las víctimases
dc.subject.otherProblemases
dc.subject.otherEco-filosofíaes
dc.subject.otherLugares
dc.subject.otherEugene McCabeca
dc.subject.otherTrilogia de les víctimesca
dc.subject.otherTroublesca
dc.subject.otherEco-filosofíaca
dc.subject.otherLlocca
dc.subject.otherEugene McCabeen
dc.subject.otherVictims trilogyen
dc.subject.otherTroublesen
dc.subject.otherEco-philosophyen
dc.subject.otherPlaceca
dc.title“The world is still beautiful”: an eco-philosophical reading of Eugene McCabe’s victims trilogyen
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dc.rights.accessLevelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.24162/EI2023-11702ca


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2023 by Christina Angela Howes | This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged for access.
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