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Este estudio propone explorar la teoría crítica del pensamiento ecológico, del poshumanismo y del eco-posmodernismo en El entenado (2016) para exponer cómo Juan José Saer exterioriza la problemática de la existencia humana. En una historia escrita cuyas páginas no alcanzan a englobar la totalidad de su experiencia, un viejo intenta darle sentido a su secuestro en el Nuevo Mundo luego de que una tribu indígena asesinara al resto de su expedición sesenta años antes, durante el siglo XVI. La novela advierte implícitamente cómo la realidad humana reside bajo un palimpsesto de dicotomías, fundamentalmente, la de ser visto/no visto por el otro. Obligado a permanecer por diez años con sus secuestradores, el entonces adolescente se encara a vivir con la naturaleza dentro de la Naturaleza, términos yuxtapuestos por Timothy Morton. Las dualidades de la cultura occidental estudiadas por Val Plumwood en su teoría eco-posmoderna arrojan luz sobre el sentido de las actitudes en la sociedad española al rescatar un testigo de tierras no vistas, alejadas de la realidad, que posee luz, forma y nombre. El poshumanismo de Pramod Nayar presenta al humano como un organismo cuya evolución depende de todas las otras formas de vida, aunque se encuentre a sí mismo fuera de la Naturaleza. Ineludiblemente, el humano depende de ese otro que rechaza y diferencia de sí mismo para su existencia y visibilidad. Analizar El entenado dentro de estos marcos teóricos permitirá al lector entender el vicio primordial de todos los seres humanos: "querer actualizar a toda costa las imágenes de la esperanza".

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This study proposes to explore the critical theory of ecological thought, posthumanism, and eco-postmodernism in The Stepchild (2016) to expose how Juan José Saer externalizes the problematic of human existence. In a written story whose pages fail to encompass the totality of his experience, an old man tries to make sense of his kidnapping in the New World after an indigenous tribe murdered the rest of his expedition sixty years earlier, during the 16th century. The novel implicitly warns how human reality resides under a palimpsest of dichotomies, fundamentally, that of being seen/unseen by the other. Forced to remain for ten years with his kidnappers, the then adolescent is faced with living with nature within Nature, terms juxtaposed by Timothy Morton. The dualities of Western culture studied by Val Plumwood in his eco-postmodern theory shed light on the meaning of attitudes in Spanish society by recovering a witness of unseen lands, distant from reality, which possesses light, form, and name. Pramod Nayar's posthumanism presents humans as organisms whose evolution depends on all other forms of life, even if they find themselves outside of Nature. Humans inevitably depend on this other, which they reject and differentiate from themselves, for their existence and visibility. Analyzing The Stepchild within these theoretical frameworks will allow the reader to understand the primordial vice of all human beings: "wanting to actualize the images of hope at all costs."

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Literature indexing term
Title
El Vicio de Ser Visto: Deconstruyendo las Dualidades en El Entenado Mediante el Pensamiento Ecológico y el Poshumanismo
Alternate title
The Vice of Being Seen: Deconstructing Dualities in The Stepson Through Ecological Thinking and Posthumanism
Number of pages
60
Publication year
2025
Degree date
2025
School code
0206
Source
MAI 86/11(E), Masters Abstracts International
ISBN
9798314855218
Committee member
Brescia, Pablo; Campisi, Nicolás
University/institution
University of South Florida
Department
World Languages
University location
United States -- Florida
Degree
M.A.
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language
Spanish
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number
31845331
ProQuest document ID
3200558096
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/el-vicio-de-ser-visto-deconstruyendo-las/docview/3200558096/se-2?accountid=208611
Copyright
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Database
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