Écologies du plurivers et (dé)colonialité dans quelques fictions d’enquête environnementale du Sud global

Abstract

In this article, I propose to study two novels that articulate a non-dualist and decolonial socio-environmental discourse. The aim will be to understand the contributions of contemporary fiction to a way of thinking the global South that defends the need to redefine the categories for understanding the communities of the pluriverse, both human and non-human, and the territories they inhabit. Within the framework of literary fiction, narrative devices emerge that, in addition to formulating a critical discourse of the Anthropocene’s regime of planetary depredation, seek to stage collectives and struggling territorialities in the globalized Capitalocene. Based on the reading of two novels, Os transparentes (2012), by Angolan writer Ondjaki, and By the Rivers of Babylon (2017), by Jamaican Kei Miller, we will analyze particular ethical and aesthetic, as well as political and ontological, implications of this ecoliterature. The ultimate goal is to understand how these pre-apocalyptic investigative fictions visibilize and document ecologies and ontologies threatened with extinction.

Keywords

• comparative literature
• contemporary novel
• decolonial studies
• environmental fiction
• global South
• Kei Miller