GENRE AND NATURE IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND SPANISH NARRATIVES

This book is not a mere academic exercise. With rigor, but also with the strength of conviction and commitment, Eva Antón explores the panorama of the contemporary Spanish and French novel, drawing on a highly engaging corpus suited to the interests of her study—one that is innovative, important, and much needed. Never before has the urgency of ecofeminist literary narratives and analyses been felt. The power of fictional narrative is enormous and maintains a complementary relationship with the essay. Stories of childhood and adolescence powerfully shape our imagination, but literature continues to do so throughout the rest of our lives. In a time of ecological crisis and the emergence of alternative paradigms to unsustainable development, this essential work by Eva Antón brings a hopeful message that we summarize, concluding, in the author's own words: "The crumbling of the logic of patriarchal domination, the affective and empathetic concern for the natural world of which we are a part, and the emancipatory horizon of women and other subaltern or oppressed beings are slowly and rarely emerging. But they are emerging, they emerge fundamentally from the authors, and this allows us to imagine that building another world is possible."