Literary Ecowitches in the Symbiocene: Healing the Wounds of the Earth and its Peoples through Lunarpunk Posthuman Re-Story-ation Narratives
This article explores the contemporary literary ecowitch as a transformative figure within ecofeminist, ecocritical, and posthumanist thought. Grounded in ecofeminist revisionism and ecospiritual animist movements, the ecowitch (Sotelo 2025) is portrayed as a symbol of ecological resistance and healing that challenges dominant androanthropocentric worldviews through multispecies collaboration. The article analyses two stories from the new Lunarpunk Anthology (Norton-Kertson 2023) –to highlight storytelling as a form of magical activism. These narratives demonstrate speculative fiction’s capacity to imagine symbiotic, posthuman possible futures. Ultimately, the literary ecowitch becomes a visionary force in the Symbiocene (Albrecht 2019), fostering ecological reparation and resisting systemic eco-social injustices.
Institutions
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2025.91.01
- Primary Topic
- Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00