Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production
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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

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Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

About this book

Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American history

The first book to integrate both critical plant studies and critical animal studies within the context of Latin American culture, this collection explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through various kinds of media. Acknowledging nonhuman species as coproducers of culture, this volume offers a deeper understanding of the region’s natural environment and humanity’s place in it.

Contributors analyze a wide range of cultural production, including recent science films on monarch butterfly migration, nineteenth-century photographs of Panama, the eighteenth-century diary of a nun in New Granada, 1920s Brazilian landscape paintings, contemporary Zapotec poetry, and twentieth-century vegetarian cookbooks from Uruguay and Mexico. By focusing on plants and animals, these essays uncover the entanglements of nonhuman lives with issues such as race, gender, labor, and coloniality, while highlighting other-than-human ways of living, knowing, and communicating.

Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production promotes a deeper understanding of cultural forms in Latin America and breaks down disciplinary divides—both between critical animal studies and critical plant studies and among fields such as literary studies, film studies, and art history. Ultimately, this collection challenges anthropocentric perspectives as it offers new pathways to think about and with plants and animals.

Contributors: Patricia Isabel Lontro Marder Vieira | Jorge Quintana Navarrete | Beatriz Rivera-Barnes | Brian T. Chandler | Oscar A. Pérez | Niall A. Peach | Pilar Espitia | Jonathan Mulki | Cristina E. Pardo Porto | Thomaz Amancio | Micah McKay | Ana Carolina Carmona-Ribeiro | Vanesa Miseres | Víctor Sierra Matute | Kate Ostrom | Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez | Dr. Mauricio Espinoza

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Yes, you can access Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production by Cristina E. Pardo Porto,Oscar A. Pérez in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatur & Lateinamerikanische & karibische Literaturkritik. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Plants, Animals, and Cultural Criticism from Latin America Cristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez
  8. Part I Beyond Anthropocentrism
  9. Part II Language and Knowledge
  10. Part III Coloniality and Multispecies Resistance
  11. Part IV The Politics of Plant and Animal Life
  12. Afterword: A Latin American Mélange of Existence
  13. List of Contributors
  14. Index