Einki hvørvur. Sundur- og samanrenningar í yrkingasavninum Korallbruni (2018) eftir Onnu Maluna Jógvansdóttur. Ein viðgerð við støði í vistgreining (“ecocriticism”) og evnisligari snaring (“new materialism”): Nothing Disappears. An Ecocritical Examination of Material Entanglements in Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir’s Poetry Collection Korallbruni (2018)

Abstract

This article examines Anna Malan Jógvansdóttir’s poetry collection Korallbruni (2018) through an ecocritical framework informed by new materialism in literary studies. The poems in the collection explore the dissolution of a body in the sea and the blurring of boundaries between the human and the non-human. Bodily substances transform, disintegrate, enter new connections, become energy, and never fully disappear. Words marking thresholds between different worlds or stratums of life and being – such as “shoreline”, “water surface”, and “skin” – recur throughout the collection. Drawing on Jane Bennett’s concept of “assemblage” (2010) as well as works of Bruno Latour (1993) and Timothy Morton (2010), the article offers an ecocritical analysis of the poems. The theoretical framework is particularly apt, as the poems sensuously depict how a human subject, an “I”, is embedded in networks and ceases to exist as a stable entity. From a literary-historical perspective, the poems reflect a change in the perception of the relationship between humans and the natural environment.

Úrtak

Greinin viðger yrkingasavnið Korallbruni (2018) eftir Onnu Maluna Jógvansdóttur. Ástøðiliga grundarlagið undir viðgerðini eru hugsanir knýttar at evnisligu snaringini, new materialism, í bókmentagransking. Yrkingarnar í savninum lýsa, hvussu ein kroppur loysist sundur í havinum, og hvussu markið millum menniskjað og aðrar livandi verur kámast. Gøgn í kroppinum broytast, detta sundur, ganga inn í nýggjar samanhangir, verða til orku og hvørva ikki. Orð, sum benda á mørk millum ymsar lívslindir og verur, eitt nú “fjøra”, “vatnskorpa” og “húð”, ganga aftur í savninum. Hugtakið “assemblage” (Bennett, 2010) og hugsanir hjá Bruno Latour (1993) og Timothy Morton (2010) verða brúkt í vistgreinandi kanning av yrkingunum, ið kunnu lesast sum ein samanhangandi frásøgn. Tann evnisliga snaringin hóskar ástøðiliga væl til yrkingarnar, tí tær lýsa sansaliga, hvussu eitt menniskja, eitt “eg”, gongur inn í stórar umhvørvisligar samanhangir og ikki er til sum ein avmarkað eind. Bókmentasøguliga kunnu lýsingarnar í yrkingunum lesast sum ein broyting í fatanini av menniskjans støðu í náttúruni millum aðrar verur.