The Natural World In Latin American Literatures
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The Natural World in Latin American Literatures
Author | : Adrian Taylor Kane |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786457601 |
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From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American literature. In contrast to the rise of ecocritical scholarship in Anglophone literary studies, Latin American literary ecocriticism has been slower to take root. This volume of eleven essays seeks to advance the ecocritical conversation among Latin Americanists, furthering insight into the relationship between humans and their environments. The essays address regions as diverse as Patagonia and the Chihuahua Desert.
Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction
Author | : Laura Barbas-Rhoden |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ecology in literature |
ISBN | : 0813045487 |
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Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape
Author | : B. Rivera-Barnes,J. Hoeg |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2009-12-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780230101906 |
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Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, asking questions that contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.
The Image of the River in Latin o American Literature
Author | : Jeanie Murphy,Elizabeth G. Rivero |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498547307 |
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Although fictional—and often fantastic—representations of nature have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of scholarly interest in the region until the end of the twentieth century. This volume employs an ecocritical lens in order to explore and question the use of the river imagery in Latino and Latin American literature from the colonial period to our modern world, creating a space in which to examine both its literal and figurative meanings, associated as much with processes of a personal nature as with those of the collective experience in the region. The slow, meandering streams of nostalgia, the raging currents of conflict or the stagnant waters of social decay are just a few of the ways in which the river has become an important symbol and inspiration to many of the region’s writers. This book offers a diverse collection of writings that, through a trans-historical and trans-geographical perspective, allows us, from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, to reflect on the rich and dynamic image of the river and, by extension, on the vital context of Latin/o America, its people and societies.
Ecofictions Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World
Author | : Ilka Kressner,Ana María Mutis,Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2019-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000753066 |
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Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author | : Verity Smith |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1781 |
Release | : 1997-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781135314255 |
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A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author | : Verity Smith |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135960261 |
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The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
Author | : Jennifer French,Gisela Heffes |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780810142657 |
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.