Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape
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Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape

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eBook - PDF

Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 To Discover, an Intransitive Verb: Christopher Columbus’s First Encounter with the American Landscape
  9. 2 Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar NĂșnez Cabeza de Vaca
  10. 3 Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics
  11. 4 AndrĂ©s Bello’s “Ode to Tropical Agriculture”: The Landscape of Independence
  12. 5 “I Do Not Weep for Camaguey”: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Nineteenth-Century Cuban Landscape
  13. 6 Rebellion in the Backlands (Os SertÔes): The Darwinian Landscape
  14. 7 Yuyos Are Not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga
  15. 8 The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bårbara
  16. 9 “It didn’t work, Mother. You should have let me stay here.” Alegría’s and Flakoll’s Ashes of Izalco
  17. 10 Pablo Neruda’s Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature
  18. 11 Love in the Time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli’s Ambivalent Ecofeminism
  19. 12 The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro’s Unica mirando al mar
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index