| Description |
viii, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Adrian Taylor Kane -- I. Nature, modernity and technology in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. Ecological criticism and Spanish American fiction: an overview / Jonathan Tittler; Nature and the discourse of modernity in Spanish American avant-garde fiction / Adrian Taylor Kane; Nature in the twentieth-century Latin American novel (1900-1967) and in Cien aņos de soledad of Garcia Marquez / Raymond L. Williams; The long and winding road of technology from Maria to Cien aņos de soledad to Mantra: an ecocritical reading / Gustavo Llarull -- II. Environmental utopias and dystopias. Caribbean utopias and dystopias: the emergence of the environmental writer and artist / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; Paradise lost: a reading of Waslala from the perspectives of feminist utopianism and ecofeminism / Marisa Pereyra; Barbarian civilization: travel and landscape in Don Segundo Sombra and the contemporary Argentinean novel / Martin Camps -- III. Ecology and the subaltern. Dissecting environmental racism: redirecting the "toxic" in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood and Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus / Dora Ramirez-Dhoore; Nature as articulate and inspirited: Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos / Traci Roberts-Camps; National nature and ecologies of abjection in Brazilian literature at the turn of the twentieth Century / Mark D. Anderson -- "Beyond the telluric novel" / Adrian Taylor Kane. |
| Summary |
"This volume advances the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments, transcending national boundaries by addressing diverse regions. The forms of environmental criticism practiced converge with literary history, aesthetic theory, postcolonialism, and Marxism, broadening the ecocritical approach and providing a strong overview to this growing critical movement"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Latin American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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| Added Author |
Kane, Adrian Taylor, 1976-
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| ISBN |
9780786442874 (softcover : alk. paper) |
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0786442875 |
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