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The Sea Remembers, the River Haunts: Fluid Archives in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction
Contemporary crises have made water into a medium through which ecological, political, and social conflicts can be understood. Droughts, pollution, rising sea levels and increasing inequalities in access are just a few of the reasons why water occupies such a central place in environmental politics and ecological imaginaries. Across the Hispanic world, these environmental transformations…
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The Hydrogothic
The Hydrogothic foregrounds water as an agentive element which causes the Gothic effect, and not vice versa. It encompasses all water bodies and forms. It is not only elemental water in its liquid, vaporous, and frozen forms, but also the broader category of fluid substances that are ubiquitous in Gothic narratives, such as blood, poison,…
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Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art
Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization. The defense of water as a common and public good serves as a…
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