Presencia de la naturaleza, territorios transparentes y animalidad en Cuando aprendí a pensar, de Pilarica Alvear Sanín

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ID21437658
AuthorsMarita Lopera (0000-0003-3987-4197, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, corresponding author)
Year2025
Issue58
Publication date2025-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudios de Literatura Colombiana (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0123-4412 • E-ISSN: 2665-3273
PublisherUniversidad de Antioquia (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.17533/udea.elc.358807
OpenAlexW7126103198
LanguageES
References cited8

This article analyzes the presence of nature in the novel Cuando aprendí a pensar (1962), by Pilarica Alvear Sanín (1942), one of the five Antioquian women writers who published novels in the twentieth century. The purpose is to characterize the hegemonic and non-hegemonic forms of nature, territories and animals that we perceive through the narrative voice of Juanita, a five-year-old girl. The territory is transparent in its anonymity, which, paradoxically, highlights its nature. An animality emerges from the interspecies relationships Juanita engages in with the dog and other non-human animals. Thus, through her work we can configure literary antecedents on the ways in which we have considered nature, which makes her legacy relevant, six decades after publication, in an increasingly critical ecological reality

Agency (philosophy) · Context (archaeology) · Hegemony · Narrative · Work (physics) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Latin American Literature Analysis · Philosophical and Cultural Analysis

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