Beyond Human : Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism / Maryanne L. Leone and Shanna Lino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leone, Maryanne L., author.

Lino, Shanna, author.

Series:

Toronto Iberic ; Volume 83.

Toronto Iberic Series ; Volume 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism--Spain.

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Spain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human/human dichotomy and nature/culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture

Part One: Tracing Environmental Culture in Spain

1 Lope's Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Gran Canaria: An Ecolonialist Reading

2 Birdsong and the Earth's Polyrhythm: The Life of a Caged Blue Rock Thrush in Early Modern Spain

3 Water Grabbing and the Dammed Esla: The Enchanted Waters of Jorge de Montemayor and the Riaño Reservoir

4 Of Witches and Land Reform in Enlightenment Spain

5 Plant, Animal, and Human Consciousness in Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos

Part Two: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene

6 Leonardo Torres Quevedo's Automata and the Consolidation of Technological Regenerationism

7 The Spectre of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's Cañas y barro

8 Jesús Carrasco's Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity

9 Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero's Times of Hatred

10 The Salvage Poetics of Ben Clark's Basura

Part Three: Disruptive Agentic Paradigms

11 Ecofeminist Materialism and Entanglements of Care in Sara Mesa's Un incendio invisible

12 Trans-Corporeal Matter Narratives in Hierro

13 ¡El toro no entiende de toreo! Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez's Anti-Taurine Essays, and the Emergence of Post-Humanist Views of Animals in Spain

14 Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Albert Sánchez Piñol's Cold Skin

Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter

15 Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García's Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela.

16 La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain's Greatest Ecological Disaster

17 Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic

Contributors

Index

Series List.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781487548339

1487548338

9781487548353

1487548354

OCLC:

1378783495