‘A Sea of Dark Green Plants’:

Asia Battiloro

doi:10.35765/pk.2024.4502.05

Asia Battiloro Sapienza University of Rome & University of Silesia in Katowice https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3657-2716

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4502.05

Słowa kluczowe: plantacjocen, Joseph Conrad, biokolonializm, nie-ludzie, ekokrytycyzm

Abstrakt

Niniejsza praca wykorzystuje systemową koncepcję „plantacjocenu” w analizie Plantatora z Malaty (PzM) (2012 [1914]) Josepha Conrada, ukazując przy tym autora jako pisarza obecnej epoki geologicznej, w której niszczycielska działalność człowieka doprowadziła do nieodwracalnych zmian na Ziemi. W przyjętym w niniejszym artykule ujęciu czas w PzM nabiera podwójnego, analitycznego znaczenia. Pomimo że praca skupia się na historycznych powiązaniach ekonomicznych inwestycji z imperialnym zamiarem kolonialnego zarządzania naukowego, analizuje ona również PzM z biokolonialnej perspektywy. Perspektywa ta podkreśla rolę przesiedlonego życia roślinnego jako niezwykle istotnego dla ontologicznie pluralistycznej kontekstualizacji PzM jako przykładu plantacjoceńskiej narracji. Z analizy wynika, że PzM zapewnia dostęp do tego, co można nazwać w rozumienia Marka Boulda plantacjonoceńską „nieświadomością”, ponieważ opowiadanie to ukazuje współczesnemu czytelnikowi realia ludzkiej oraz „nie-ludzkiej” (tj. np. roślinnej), dyslokacji, relokacji i ich wyzysku na królewskiej plantacji na początku XX w.

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Asia Battiloro, Sapienza University of Rome & University of Silesia in Katowice

A second year PhD student in English Literatures, Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome (curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies), in cotutelle with the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Her doctoral project wishes to sharpen the focus on form – aesthetic, environmental and sociocultural – for the study of twenty-first-century British climate change novels. Her current research interests include the application of Embodied Narratology for the study of the novel, biocolonialism, scientific imperialism, and the study of literature for the historicisation of climate change.

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