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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pardo Porto, Cristina E., editor.

Paerez, 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:

x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Exploring the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through a wide range of cultural production, this collection challenges anthropocentric perspectives and offers a deeper understanding of Latin America's natural environment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

Part I. Beyond anthropocentrism

Anthropomorphism and vegetal life in Sara Gallardo's 'Un caesped' / 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

Part II. Language and knowledge

Cattle intimacies : animal voice and literary speech in Joaao Guimaraaes Rosa and Marilia Flo?or 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. Paerez

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

Part III. Coloniality and multispecies resistance

'He wanted me to be his little dog' : imagery of nature, gender, and colonial powers in Jeraonima Nava y Saavedra's spiritual autobiography / Pilar Espitia

Guamaan Poma's ecocentric ethos in Primer nueva coraonica y Buen gobierno / Vaictor Sierra Matute

Migration and stasis in Xilase qui riae' di' sicasi riae' nisa guiigu'/La nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los raios by Irma Pineda / Emily Celeste Vaazquez Enraiquez

El aarbol del chicle : plant life and racialization in Luis Rosado Vega's Poema de la selva traagica (1938) and Yulene Olaizola's Selva traagica (2021) / Jorge Quintana Navarrete

Part IV. The politics of plant and animal life

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 20th century Latin American vegetarian cookbooks / Vanesa Miseres

Afterword. A Latin American maelange of existence / Patraicia Vieira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Plants and animals in Latin American cultural production

ISBN:

9781683405535

1683405536

9781683405689

1683405684

OCLC:

1535646275