Abstract

OLIVA CRUZ, Juan Ignacio. American End-of-the-Millennium Materialism in Jesús López Pacheco's Ecólogas y Urbanas. La Palabra [online]. 2022, n.44, 07.  Epub Mar 30, 2023. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n44.2022.14845.

The work of Jesús López Pacheco (1930-1997) has always been conscious of the environment surrounding its characters. It will be, however, in the last work of his lifetime, Ecólogas y Urbanas: Manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996), where this concern is mani fested in all its splendor. This neologism (which combines "eclogue" and "ecology") hides a lyrical activism that goes from personal to collective experience, and tries to bring us back to sustainability as a paradigm for subsistence in the third millennium. From an ecological ma terialist perspective of North American origin, it analyzes human relations with other animal species, the critique of savage economic mercantilism and the environmental degradation of urban landscapes. Therefore, showing a sharp sense of humour linked with vis poietica, a possible postpastoral scenario is drawn, tinged with hope, as the only solution to humanity in the years to come.

Keywords : López Pacheco; Ecólogas y Urbanas; critical realism; Generation of '50; North American materialism; ecomarxism; environmental degradation; Anthropocene.

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