Format:
VI, 203 S.
ISBN:
9780230615199
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction ; To discover, an intransitive verb: Christopher Columbus's first encounter with the American landscape
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Is there such a thing as too much water? yhe hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca
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Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics
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Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture": the landscape of independence
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"I do not weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's 19th century Cuban landscape
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Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape
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Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga
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The landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara
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"It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco
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Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape: nations, economy, nature
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Love in the time of Somoza: (Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism)
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The landscape of the consumer society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Literatur
;
Natur
;
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