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”).

The 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.