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Grounded in Glenn Albrecht’s concept of solastalgia and sense of place theories, this article offers an ecocritical reading of Txani Rodríguez’s La seca [The Blight] (2024). By applying Timothy Clark’s ecocritical frameworks (2015, 2019), the analysis reveals how the novel transforms scientific abstractions (e.g., la seca disease, avocado monocultures) into visceral narratives of loss, bridging local and global ecological crises. The novel’s polyphonic structure exposes the socio-economic asymmetries driving environmental degradation and models a nuanced ecological ethics that resists reductive activism. La seca thus enlarges eco-fiction by revealing solastalgia as both symptom and catalyst in Spain’s rural Anthropocene.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2025.49.3.45-55
Date of publication: 2025-10-16 13:12:26
Date of submission: 2025-02-07 19:49:33
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