Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LUIS FELIPE DIAS RIBEIRO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE: LUIS FELIPE DIAS RIBEIRO
DATA: 29/08/2023
HORA: 09:00
LOCAL: QUALIFICAÇÃO DE DISSERTAÇÃO - Sala 323J / https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/sala/luizir-de-oliveira
TÍTULO: The Ecosocialist Society in Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia
PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Literary Critique. Marxism. Ecology. Ecosocialism. Science Fiction.
PÁGINAS: 24
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
RESUMO:

Faced with the climate catastrophe described by science as a result of Climate Change, it is necessary for literary studies to deepen in works that contemplate the field of ecology, sustainability, and environmentalism. For this, a more explicit approach is also necessary, analyzing not only environmental issues but social and economic aspects that surround it. The novel Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston (1975), written by Ernest Callenbach, is a literary work that takes into account such topics and extrapolates possibilities in literary criticism. For that, it was necessary to develop a new perspective on literary criticism: Ecosocialist Literary Criticism. This literary critique was elaborated by the academic Eric C. Otto in one of the chapters of his book Green Speculations: science fiction and transformative environmentalism (2012), and it fits perfectly in this situation. However, due to the lack of theoretical rigor presented by Otto in this new form of literary criticism, it is in good order to return to the bases that make up this criticism. Essentially, the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, such as the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848), are fundamental for the development of a critique of political economy and Dialectical Historical Materialism, a philosophical current conceived by both. To make this interdisciplinary bridge, we depart from the concepts formulated by Terry Eagleton in his work Marxism and Literary Criticism (1976), where the development of Marxist Literary Criticism is observed and thus expands his ideas to ecosocialism. In this way, through the works of ecosocialist authors, such as John Bellamy Foster in Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), Michael Löwy in Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe (2015), and Kohei Saito in Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017), to support the conception of ecosocialism. By crossing all these fields of knowledge, and interweaving the understandings of different themes in a critique of Ecotopia, it will be possible to elaborate alongside the literary critique, the concepts of ecosocialist literary criticism and present to the academic community the possibilities of research in literary studies from this new approach to literature.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 2676289 - CLAUDIO AUGUSTO CARVALHO MOURA
Presidente - 1550705 - LUIZIR DE OLIVEIRA
Externo à Instituição - RUAN NUNES SILVA - UESPI