![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel, the natural environment is saturated with toxic chemicals which make impossible the characters' escape from contamination and illness, thus removing the possibility of an empathetic future from the landscape. Distancia de rescate, a terror-ridden novel written by Samanta Schweblin in 2014, presents a dis-futurized vision of today's pampa as having been destroyed, both environmentally and culturally, by the homogenizing imposition of soy monoculture. First exploring the physical and cultural construction of this environment in the nineteenth century, this thesis then examines each of the two novels and how they portray the past, present, and future of the natural space. Influential in the creation and development of Argentine national identity, the pampa occupies an important role in the imagination and culture of the country. Using a decolonial framework based in ecological and queer values, this thesis analyzes the role of the environment of the pampa intwo contemporary Argentine novels, Distancia de rescate (2014) and Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017). ![]()
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