The Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings

by Kane, Adrian Taylor

• ISBN13: 9780786442874
• ISBN10: 0786442875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: McFarland Publishing

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Adrian Taylor Kane is an assistant professor of Spanish at Boise State University, where he teaches courses on Hispanic and Latin American literature. He is currently doing research on the Spanish American environmental novel.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
Nature, Modernity and Technology in Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction
Ecological Criticism and Spanish American Fiction: An Overview	p. 11
Nature and the Discourse of Modernity in Spanish American Avant-Garde Fiction	p. 37
Nature in the Twentieth-Century Latin American Novel (1900-1967) and in Cien años de soledad of García Márquez	p. 66
The Long and Winding Road of Technology from María to Cien años de soledad to Mantra: An Ecocritical Reading	p. 89
Environmental Utopias and Dystopias
Caribbean Utopias and Dystopias: The Emergence of the Environmental Writer and Artist	p. 113
Paradise Lost: A Reading of Waslala from the Perspectives of Feminist Utopianism and Ecofeminism	p. 136
Barbarian Civilization: Travel and Landscape in Don Segundo Sombra and the Contemporary Argentinean Novel	p. 154
Ecology and the Subaltern
Dissecting Environmental Racism: Redirecting the "Toxic" in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood and Helena María Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus	p. 175
Nature as Articulate and Inspirited in Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos	p. 196
National Nature and Ecologies of Abjection in Brazilian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	p. 208
Epilogue: "Beyond the Telluric Novel"	p. 233
About the Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 241
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