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      LOOKING TO URSULA K. LE GUIN’S THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST TO FIND WAYS TO RESPOND TO THE DILEMMAS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE Translated title: BUSCANDO FORMAS DE REAGIR AOS DILEMAS DO ANTROPOCENO EM THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST, DE URSULA K. LE GUIN

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          Abstract In The Word for World is Forest (1972), Ursula K. Le Guin imagines a dystopian future where humans (Terrans) are faced with the task of plundering other planets for the resource they have caused the earth to be depleted of: wood. On planet Athshe, Terrans find dense forests and a peaceful population of humans, and are quick to reproduce practices founded in the dualistic logic that sets humans (culture) against nature. These practices and depictions of the earth resonate with the dilemmas of the Anthropocene, the “age of humans,” where loss in biodiversity, climate change, massive deforestation, among other things are sounding an alarm that many associate with the end of the world as we know it. Athsheans, as I demonstrate in this paper, put up a resistance to Terran practices that are grounded not in violence (although they unwillingly apply it) but in holding fast to a worldview that is nondualist and dream-based that can serve to inform us in resisting the logic that has led us to the Anthropocene in the first place.

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          Resumo Este artigo analisa “The glass abattoir”, um dos contos de Moral tales (COETZEE, no prelo b), entendido como uma sequência de A vida dos animais (COETZEE, 2003), ambos escritos por JM Coetzee. Buscaremos compreender o movimento do autor na direção da ética em favor do direito à vida dos animais, questionando os códigos morais que justificam o consumo de carne. Coetzee transita pelo discurso filosófico em ambas as obras, refutando a existência de uma superioridade humana sobre esses animais. Em ambos os textos, a personagem principal é Elizabeth Costello, considerada alter ego de Coetzee. No conto, ela assume o inconformismo do autor com relação à forma que nós, indivíduos onívoros, tratamos os animais que comemos e estabelecemos um “equilíbrio ecológico” ao decidir quais, como e quando morrem. Mostramos que, em “The glass abattoir”, a personagem rompe com os discursos e planeja tornar fisicamente visível o que ocorre dentro dos abatedouros.

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                Ilha do Desterro
                Ilha Desterro
                Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, SC, Brazil )
                0101-4846
                2175-8026
                April 2021
                : 74
                : 1
                : 533-551
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                [01] Florianópolis Santa Catarina orgnameUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brazil
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                S2175-80262021000100533 S2175-8026(21)07400100533
                10.5007/2175-8026.2021.e75377
                70c886a5-1b93-4d97-b152-791d51176f0b

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 31 July 2020
                : 27 October 2020
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                Distopia,Le Guin,Ursula K,Literatura de Resistência,Antropoceno,Dystopia,Resistance Literature,Anthropocene

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