The Natural World in Latin American Literatures - 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 The Natural World in Latin American Literatures write by Adrian Taylor Kane. This book was released on 2014-01-10. The Natural World in Latin American Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American literature. In contrast to the rise of ecocritical scholarship in Anglophone literary studies, Latin American literary ecocriticism has been slower to take root. This volume of eleven essays seeks to advance the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments. The essays address regions as diverse as Patagonia and the Chihuahua Desert.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader - 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 The Latin American Ecocultural Reader write by Jennifer French. This book was released on 2020-11-15. The Latin American Ecocultural Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
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.
Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape
Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape - 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 Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape write by B. Rivera-Barnes. This book was released on 2009-12-07. Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, asking questions that contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World - 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 Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World write by Ilka Kressner. This book was released on 2019-11-21. Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability.
