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Different Shades of Green: A Dark Green Counterculture in Ted Hughes's Crow

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Lidström, Susanna
Keywords
espiritualidad
Literatura
Nature and religion
science and technology
ciencia y tecnología
Literature
ecologismo
Environmental science
Medio ambiente
Cristianismo
spirituality
Christianity
environmentalism
Naturaleza y religión
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/145085
Online Access
http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20268
Abstract
This essay argues that Crow, a collection of poems by Ted Hughes published in 1970, forms part of a countercultural ovement that began to emerge in the 1960s and that continues to find new forms in the current century. In the form it takes in Crow, this movement protests against a relationship between humans and nature based on a primarily Christian world view combined with what it considers an exaggerated belief in science and technology. This combination and its relation to environmental crisis was first addressed by Lynn White in his classical article from 1967, “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”. This analysis attempts to demonstrate that the Crow poems, written in the years immediately following the publication of White’s article, express a similar set of ideas in poetic form. Hughes goes a step further than White, and envisions an alternative, spiritual rather than religious, framework for the nature-­‐human relationship. This alternative is characterised as part of a counterculture described by Bron Taylor in Dark Green Religion. According to Taylor, dark green religion defines a variant of environmentalism based on a spiritual view of nature (similar but not identical to deep ecology). This essay suggests that Hughes’s Crow is a version of this counterculture.
Este ensayo argumenta que Crow, una colección de poemas de Ted Hughes publicada en 1970, forma parte del movimiento contracultural que comenzó a surgir en la década de los 60 y que sigue encontrando nuevas formas en el siglo actual. En la forma que adopta en Crow, este movimiento protesta contra una relación entre hombre y naturaleza basada en una visión del mundo fundamentalmente Cristiana combinada con lo que considera una creencia exagerada en la ciencia y la tecnología. Fue Lynn White quien en su artículo de 1967, "Las raíces históricas de nuestra crisis ecológica", abordó por primera vez esta combinación y su relación con la crisis medioambiental. Este análisis intenta demostrar que los poemas de Crow, escritos en los años inmediatamente siguientes a la publicación del artículo de White, expresan ideas similares pero de forma poética. Hughes va más allá que White y concive un marco alternativo, más espiritual que religioso, para la relación ser humano-­naturaleza. Esta alternativa se caracteriza por ser parte de la contracultura descrita por Bron Taylor en Dark Green Religion. Según Taylor, “la religión de color verde oscuro” define una variante del ecologismo basada en una visión espiritual de la naturaleza (similar pero no idéntica a la ecología profunda). Este ensayo sugiere que los poemas de Crow de Hughes son una versión de esta contracultura.
Date
2014-05-15
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Identifier
oai:dspace.uah.es:10017/20268
2171-9594
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 4, n. 1 (2013), pp. 12-29
http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20268
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