Families as ecosystems

Abstract

To theorize and reimagine the contemporary web of family relations, this article maps and analyzes the family ecosystems in Rivasian fiction through an eco-critical lens. As one of the most salient contemporary Galician and Spanish authors, well known for his ecologically conscious writing, an ecocritical definition of family must take into consideration the imaginary proposed by his texts. That is, a non-anthropocentric rhizomatic imaginary of family relationships that questions and expands beyond traditional definitions of family as biological, heteropatriarchal and exclusively human.

Keywords

• family
• ecosystems
• Manuel Rivas
• ecocriticism
• Galician literature and culture