Narco-Pastoral: Drug Trafficking, Ecology, and the Trope of the Noble Campesino in Three Mexican Narconovelas

Goldberg, Paul

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“…Likewise, in her study of Onsigbaar ( Blood Safari , 2009) by South African, Afrikaans‐language writer, Deon Meyer, Sam Naidu draws on the work of South African ecocritical scholars to argue for a critical practice that “is sensitive to the history of both human and environmental exploitation in this region,” meaning South Africa (60). More recent ecocritical approaches to crime fiction replicate the local paradigm by studying environmental issues in specific national and sub‐national regional contexts: Britain (K. Bishop; N. Bishop; Carroll; McLauchlan), Chile (Canepa), India (Paul), Mexico (Goldberg), Scandinavia (Mai), Sweden (Mäntymäki), and the diverse landscapes of the United States of America: California (Ashman), Florida (Horsley), Wyoming, and the Navajo Nation (Dechêne and Di Gregorio).…”

Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Th e concept falls prey, as Giff ord acknowledges, to what he terms the 'prefi x-pastoral': the many forms of 'new' pastoral emerging over the past decades ( 2014 : 29). While 'urban pastoral' , 'radical pastoral' ( Garrard 1996 ), 'narco-pastoral' ( Goldberg 2016 ), 'postmodern pastoral' , 'gay pastoral' and other pastorals point to a welcome resurgence of the narrative, 11 such terms run the risk of leading to splintering rather than emphasizing the kind of historical continuity that the reconceptualization of retreat and return in postmillennial British fi ctions demonstrates.…”

Section: Pastoralmentioning

confidence: 99%