Plants and animals in Latin American cultural production / edited by Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pardo Porto, Cristina E., editor.

Pérez, Oscar A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants in art.

Animals in art.

Human ecology in art.

Human ecology in literature.

Arts, Latin American--Themes, motives.

Arts, Latin American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2025]

Summary:

"This book is a major step for multispecies studies in Latin America. It offers groundbreaking and original research in plant and animal studies across a wide range of geographies, periods, and media.”—Sophie Esch, author of emModernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America/em/pp /pp“A thoughtful and original contribution to the dynamic field of Latin American ecocriticism and environmental humanities. Its originality resides in the diversity of approaches to jointly think through critical plant studies and critical animal studies from the vantage point of Latin American literary and visual cultural production. The discussions are painstaking and timely, and the examinations of cultural expressions and linguistic contexts that include production in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Indigenous languages, are most inclusive.”—Ilka Kressner, coeditor of emEcofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World /em/pp /ppThe first book to integrate both critical plant studies and critical animal studies within the context of Latin American culture, this collection explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through various kinds of media. Acknowledging nonhuman species as coproducers of culture, this volume offers a deeper understanding of the region’s natural environment and humanity’s place in it."-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

Plants, animals, and cultural criticism from Latin America / Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez

Anthropomorphism and vegetal life in Sara Gallardo’s “Un césped” / Micah McKay

“They have wrapped the fibers of my plants around their naked feet”: Plants and animals of the US–Mexico borderscape / Kate Ostrom

Tropical scenery: Plant and animal resistance in early photographs of Panama’s rainforest / Cristina E. Pardo Porto

Brazil, the country of palm trees: A study of the Arecaceae in the work of Tarsila do Amaral / Ana Carolina Carmona‑Ribeiro

Cattle intimacies: Animal voice and literary speech in João Guimarães Rosa and Marília Floôr Kosby / Thomaz Amancio

Languages of life: Biosemiotics and living systems of plants and animals in contemporary Mexican poetry / Brian T. Chandler

Bugs, plants, and laboratories: A grammar for/of more‑than‑human entanglements in Alexis Gambis’s science new wave films / Oscar A. Pérez

In the beginning was the fable!: Textually transmitted beasts and commodities in Amores perros and Calila e Dimna / Beatriz Rivera‑Barnes

“He wanted me to be his little dog”: Imagery of nature, gender, and colonial powers in Jerónima Nava y Saavedra’s spiritual autobiography / Pilar Espitia

Guamán Poma’s ecocentric ethos in Primer nueva crónica y buen gobierno / Víctor Sierra Matute

Migration and stasis in Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ / La nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos by Irma Pineda / Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez

El árbol del chicle: Plant life and racialization in Luis Rosado Vega’s Poema de la selva trágica (1938) and Yulene Olaizola’s Selva trágica (2021) / Jorge Quintana Navarrete

Of paddocks, plants, and cattle: Security and burden in the Caribbean age of sugar / Niall A. Peach

“There’s nothing better than giving life”: Freeing the “plant” from the “plantation” in recent Latin American narratives about coffee / Mauricio Espinoza

Captivity and pride in the yerba mate world: A bond for survival under persistent coloniality / Jonathan Mulki

Return to nature: The politics of animals and plants in two turn‑of‑the‑twentieth‑century Latin American vegetarian cookbooks / Vanesa Miseres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed on May 12 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Plants and animals in Latin American cultural production.

ISBN:

1683405773

9781683405771

9781683405900

1683405900

OCLC:

1559559897

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