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Mi intención en este estudio consiste en analizar el tratamiento de la figura salvaje de la loba en El cruce de Cormac McCarthy y Mujeres que corren con los lobos de Clarisa Pinkola Estés desde una perspectiva ecocrítica y ecofeminista. Pretendo en estas páginas aportar una visión actual del estado de una tradición literaria norteamericana que se ha centrado o bien en romantizar o demonizar la figura del lobo. Además, quiero llamar la atención sobre la cuestión del activismo medioambiental y la respuesta de la sociedad actual que se define, sobre todo, en acciones manifiestas contra el intento deliberado de grupos de cazadores y gobiernos locales de exterminar la especie, por culpa de sus ataques y el daño que causan al ganado. En el estudio psicoanalítico de Estés, el lobo se presenta como una figura liberadora, empoderada con su salvajismo, y desafiando una tradición de opresión patriarcal sobre las mujeres implantada en el subconsciente femenino tal y como ha sido trasmitida en la literatura tradicional. ; Taking as a point of departure The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, the treatment of the wild figure of the "she" wolf and Clarisa Pinkola Estes's Women Who Run with the Wolves, it is my aim to apply an ecocritical and ecofeminist perspective to the study of the current status of the tradition that has focused on romanticizing or demonizing the figure of the wolf in American literature. It is also my intention to call attention to the current social responses of environmental activism with multiple demonstrations against the deliberate attempt of hunters and even local governments to exterminate the species because of the repeated attacks inflicted to cattle. In Estés' psychoanalytical study, the wolf works as a liberating figure, empowered with wildness, defying a tradition of patriarchal oppression for women, embedded in the common female unconscious as it is sanctioned in traditional literature.

Proceedings 31st AEDEAN Conference. 2008. María Jesús Lorenzo Modia. Ed. 889-898. A Coruña: Universidade. ISBN: 978-84-9749-278-2 ; [Abstract] Ecofeminism originated in political activism in the late 70s and 80s and only found its way into literary criticism in the 90s. Throughout human history, nature has constantly been feminized and women naturalized, particularly due to aspects of fertility and natural cycles. While some feminists reject this association of women and nature, others embraced the relationship between women and nature, based on the shared experience of oppression and domination. Ecofeminists highlight the conceptual connection between the domination of women and the domination of nature as being located in an oppressive and patriarchal conceptual framework characterized by a logic of domination. This round table pretends to analyze both ecofeminist literary theory and representative literary works. The panelists will discuss writers such as Ana Castillo, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Octavia Butler. We will also show several photographs from the campaigns of the PETA organization and analyze them from an ecofeminist approach.