Expressões ecofictícias em arena: antropocentrismo, capitalismo e meio ambiente na trilogia Jogos Vorazes, de Suzanne Collins

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the Hunger Games trilogy (2008-2010), by the North-American writer Suzanne Collins from an ecocritical perspective. The novels that compose it (The Hunger Games, 2008; Catching Fire, 2009; and Mockingjay, 2010) can be classified as dystopian, speculative, post-apocalyptic fiction or ecofiction works, that is, narratives that remind environmental demands and the relationship between men and the environment, so that humans and nature occupy some crucial function in the plot (DWYER, 2010). Then, the peculiarities of this fictional group problematize the concept of Anthropocene, title given to our contemporary era, in which humanity is treated like the geological agent of the changes occurred in Planet and allied with that principle, ascend itself to the idea of capitalism as a driving force that boosts the human acts in search for progress through the inconsequent use of natural resources. In developing a dictatorial and sinister context to Earth and society, Collins promotes a reflection about anthropocentrism, capitalism and the environment as elements that, in their acting processes, are submitted to the commandments of man, whether material or symbolic way, generate alarming consequences to humans and non-humans, being the first represented distinctly by the economically least privileged social strata and the elite members, specificities that propel this reading through an ecocritical view. Therefore, this study is developed according to a research of qualitative nature, with the adoption of the Textual Approach method, methodology often applied in an analysis that ally Cultural Studies with Literature and determines a critical perspective about the world in a systemic manner, introducing the reader to a consciousness that possibly will lead him/her to change his/her view and behavior while inhabitant of a planet whose life is up to extinguish.