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- Title
LA COLMENA Y EL HORMIGUERO: UNA LECTURA ECO-CRÍTICA DE CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD.
- Authors
Lago Graña, Josefa
- Abstract
This article studies the presence of ants and bees in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the connections established between the social structures those species live in and the town of Macondo, pointing out those elements that connect masculine traits with anthills, and feminine ones with beehives. Ecofeminist critical theory will help explain the effects of technical and social development in the natural world, as in the social and physical decline of Macondo. To that end the scene of Remedies assumption will be analyzed, this being the only point in the novel the queen bee is mentioned. We will also look at the many appearances of the red ants at the end of the novel, to offer a reading of the Buendía house as a beehive ruled by women, but threatened by the red ants that work as male destructive forces, endangering social stability. This reading posits that Macondo's demise is due to the broken balance between the natural and the social orders.
- Publication
Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
0378-0473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15517/rk.v39i1.18407