Reading and writing the Latin American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz.

Contributor:

Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Nature in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Conservation of natural resources in literature.

Philosophy of nature in literature.

Ecocriticism.

Literature and society--Latin America.

Literature and society.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

vi, 203 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This book is an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American literatures and ecology, spanning from its beginnings in 1492 trough the present time. Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literacy and testimonial texts, scrutinizing the ecological implications and the relationship between nature and culture. Their approach aims to prove that environmental degradation is a tangible and measurable reality.

Contents:

Introduction

To discover, an intransitive verb: Christopher Columbus's first encounter with the American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Is there such a thing as too much water? the hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture": the landscape of independence / Jerry Hoeg

"I do not weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's nineteenth-century Cuban landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape / Jerry Hoeg

Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

The landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara / Jerry Hoeg

"It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape: nations, economy, nature / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Love in the time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

The landscape of the consumer society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar / Jerry Hoeg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230615199

0230615198

OCLC:

369140811