Format:
VIII, 244 S.
,
Ill.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9780786442874
,
0786442875
Content:
"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
Content:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Preface
,
I. Nature, modernity and technology in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. Ecological criticism and Spanish American fiction: an overview
,
II. Environmental utopias and dystopias. Caribbean utopias and dystopias: the emergence of the environmental writer and artist
,
III. 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
,
Epilogue: "beyond the telluric novel"
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The natural world in Latin American literatures Jefferson, N.C : McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2010 ISBN 9780786457601
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0786457600
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Lateinamerika
;
Literatur
;
Natur
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30664
