Towards “silent springs”
reverberation of Rachel Carson's warning 60 years later
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https://doi.org/10.63595/remea.v43i1.19456Palavras-chave:
Ecocrítica, lugar ecológico, espaço ecológico, fábula, cientista feminina, Ecocriticism; ecological space; fable.Resumo
Rachel Carson (1907–1964) was a Nature writer who became famous for her exhortations to take care of ecological places, which are inserted in her narrative in the form of fable, but also like chronicles. Her most famous book –Silent Spring– became a best seller and was said to be the classic that launched the global environmental movement. Despite this, sixty years after her death, people around the world are experiencing “silent springs”. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to highlight the importance of Rachel Carsons’s literary work to humanity’s gain of responsibility for the caring of world’s places and spaces, to preserve future spaces from devastation. For this, theories about place and space as those of Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) and Yi-Fu Tuan
(1930–2022), among others, will be examined and connected to Carson’s ecological warnings.
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