Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction write by Laura Barbas-Rhoden. This book was released on 2011. Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction
Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction write by Laura Barbas-Rhoden. This book was released on 2011. Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the way Latin American novels depict key moments of environmental crisis and change. This includes novels that address current day environmental issues and post-apocalyptic novels that are concerned with the future of the environment.
Imagining the Plains of Latin America
Imagining the Plains of Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Plains of Latin America write by Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz. This book was released on 2021-04-22. Imagining the Plains of Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities. Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegría, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative write by Aarti Smith Madan. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature
A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature write by Scott M. DeVries. This book was released on 2013-09-05. A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the region’s literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s views of nature through the lens of the categories of “civilization” and “barbarity” from Facundo (1845) are systematically challenged and revised in the rest of the century. Subsequently, this book develops the argument that a vital part of the cultural critique and aesthetic innovations of Spanish American modernismo involve an ecological challenge to deepening discourses of untamed development from Europe and the United States. In other chapters, many of the well-established titles of regional and indigenista literature are contrasted to counter-traditions within those genres that express aspects of environmental justice, “deep ecology,” the relational role of emotion in nature protectionism and conservationism, even the rights of non-human nature. Finally, the concluding chapters find that the articulation of ecological advocacy in recent fiction is both more explicit than what came before but also impacts the formal elements of literature in unique ways. Textual conventions such as language, imagery, focalization, narrative sequence, metafiction, satire, and parody represent innovations of form that proceed directly from the ethical advocacy of environmentalism. The book concludes with comments about what must follow as a result of the analysis including the revision of canon, the development of literary criticism from novel approaches such as critical animal studies, and the advent of a critical dialogue within the bounds of Spanish American environmentalist literature. A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature attempts to develop a sense of the way in which ecological ideas have developed over time in the literature, particularly the way in which many Spanish American texts anticipate several of the ecological discourses that have recently become so central to global culture, current environmentalist thought, and the future of humankind.
