Imagining the Plains of Latin America
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Imagining the Plains of Latin America

An Ecocritical Study

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Imagining the Plains of Latin America

An Ecocritical Study

About this book

From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities.
Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegría, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.

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Yes, you can access Imagining the Plains of Latin America by Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Notes on translations
  9. Introduction: The continental imaginaries of Latin America
  10. 1 The empty desert of the Pampas
  11. 2 The ruined lands of the Altiplanos
  12. 3 Predation in the Orinoco Llanos
  13. 4 Naming the Pantanal wetlands
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. Copyright