Fictional environments : mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin America / Victoria Saramago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saramago, Victoria, 1985- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 37.

FlashPoints ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Brazilian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Brazilian fiction.

Environmentalism in literature.

Ecofiction--History and criticism.

Ecofiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Conservation

Chapter 1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas

Chapter 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana

Part II. Development

Chapter 3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas

Chapter 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada

Part III. The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction

Chapter 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 25, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Saramago, Victoria Fictional Environments : Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America

ISBN:

9780810142619

0810142619

Publisher Number:

40030231211

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Restricted for use by site license.