An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva

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Autor(a) principal: Vieira, Patrícia
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/108814
https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2220657
Resumo: This is the accepted version of the article
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spelling An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A SelvaAmazonian literatureNovels of the jungleEcocriticismFerreira de CastroAnarchismCooperationPlant studiesAnimal studiesThis is the accepted version of the articleIn this essay, I read Portuguese writer Ferreira de Castro’s Amazonian “novel of the jungle” A Selva (1930) through the lens of the author’s lifelong commitment to anarchist ideals and, in particular, to the thinking of Pëtr Kropotkin. I argue that Kropotkin’s reflections on collaboration in more-than-human forms of existence and on the role mutual aid will play in an anarchist world to come are key to understanding the political evolution of the novel’s protagonist from an elitist believer in monarchy to a proto-anarchist. Working in a rubber collection facility in the final years of the Amazonian rubber boom, A Selva’s main character observes the centrality of cooperation and symbiosis both within and across plant and animal species. Mutual aid, in turn, proves decisive for the survival of the destitute migrant rubber tappers that flocked to the Amazon in search of a better life. I contend that, in the novel, the cooperation between more-than-human rainforest beings serves as a blueprint for a more equitable human polity.Routledge2023-07-282025-01-23T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10316/108814http://hdl.handle.net/10316/108814https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2220657eng1356-93251469-9575https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2220657Vieira, Patríciainfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-10-27T11:16:11Zoai:estudogeral.uc.pt:10316/108814Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:25:03.988807Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
spellingShingle An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
Vieira, Patrícia
Amazonian literature
Novels of the jungle
Ecocriticism
Ferreira de Castro
Anarchism
Cooperation
Plant studies
Animal studies
title_short An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
title_full An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
title_fullStr An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
title_full_unstemmed An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
title_sort An anarchist rainforest: cooperation in Ferreira de Castro’s A Selva
author Vieira, Patrícia
author_facet Vieira, Patrícia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vieira, Patrícia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Amazonian literature
Novels of the jungle
Ecocriticism
Ferreira de Castro
Anarchism
Cooperation
Plant studies
Animal studies
topic Amazonian literature
Novels of the jungle
Ecocriticism
Ferreira de Castro
Anarchism
Cooperation
Plant studies
Animal studies
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