No-human Presences at the End of the World. Animals and Animality in Fernanda Trías’ "Mugre rosa"
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https://doi.org/10.37536/preh.2025.13.1.2700Keywords:
Fernanda Trías, Mugre rosa, Posthumanism, animal studies, Speculative FictionAbstract
Fernanda Trías has positioned herself as one of the most relevant Spanish-language authors of the 21st century. Although her literary career dates back a long time, the publication of the novel Mugre rosa, a pandemic, dystopian and apocalyptic fiction, had a great reception and critical acclaim in different parts of the world. While the novel has been studied from the themes of toxicity, motherhood-others and confinement or distress, there is still no study that focuses on the analysis of the many non-human animals that populate the novel. Thus, in this article I defend the idea that these non-human presences are a fundamental part of the novel, and that they respond to a critical stance in the face of the ravages of the Anthropocene. To do so, I will use transdisciplinary theoretical contributions, such as ecofeminism, animal studies and posthumanism, to analyze three specific cases in the novel, such as the birds, the dog and a humanimal named Mauro. I hope to demonstrate with this analysis that Mugre rosa includes in its speculative fiction a privileged and transgressive space for reflection on the human/non-human relationship, which makes it one of the most relevant novels in Spanish in recent years.
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