Nueva interpretación de Voyage au Congo de André Gide desde una perspectiva ecocrítica: entre la mirada colonial y una sensibilidad más respetuosa hacia la naturaleza
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In addition to offering readers an ideological and committed message, which has aroused the interest of critics, Voyage au Congo contains numerous descriptions of African nature, revealing a special sensory and emotional connection with the landscape and wildlife, from which an eco-sensitivity and an incipient pro-environmental orientation could derive. The aim of this study is to examine whether the nature depicted has an impact on the narrator that transcends an instrumentalising view of it, and whether a sensitivity to the destruction and exploitation of the environment in the context of colonialism is manifested. To answer the initial question, we considered it appropriate to approach the analysis of the work from an ecocritical perspective, also drawing on concepts such as Michel Collot’s feeling for nature and Edward O. Wilson’s biophilia. In Voyage au Congo, despite the absence of an ecological message in the most modern and contemporary sense of the term and despite the diarist’s sometimes ambiguous perception, there is evidence of behaviour that is friendly to the natural environment.
Source: HYBRIDA
Author: Montserrat Morales Peco
Institution: University of Castilla-La Mancha
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7165040183