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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including JosÉ MartÍ, BartolomÉ de las Casas, RubÉn DarÍo, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.

The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought - recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.



Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgment
  • General Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental Culture
  • Chapter 1: New World Natures
  • 1. Christopher Columbus: 'Letter to Various Persons' (1493)
  • 2. Gonzalo FernÁndez de Oviedo y ValdÉs: from General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-1557)
  • 3. Fray BartolomÉ de las Casas: 'Plague of Ants' (1875)
  • 4. Gaspar de Carvajal: from The Discovery of the Amazon (c. 1542)
  • 5. Jean de LÉry: 'Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil' (1578)
  • 6. JosÉ de Acosta: 'Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures that will be Dealt with in this History' (1590)
  • 7. Anonymous: from Popol vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient QuichÉ Maya (c. 1554-1558/1701)
  • 8. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca: from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609)
  • Chapter 2: Creole Landscapes
  • 1. Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: from The Spiritual Conquest (1639)
  • 2. The Catholic Church: from The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima (1897)
  • 3. AndrÉ Joao Antonil: from Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711)
  • 4. Father Jacinto MorÁn de ButrÓn: 'She Flees to the Desert' (1724)
  • 5. Georges Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: from Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-1788)
  • 6. JosÉ MartÍn FÉlix de Árrate y Acosta: 'On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of this City' (1761)
  • 7. Francisco Javier de Clavijero: from Geographical Description of Mexico (1780)
  • 8. Juan Ignacio Molina: from The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782)
  • Chapter 3: Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States
  • 1. SimÓn BolÍvar: 'My Delirium on Chimborazo' (1822)
  • 2. AndrÉs Bello: 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture' (1826)
  • 3. SimÓn RodrÍguez: 'Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya' (1830)
  • 4. Johann Rudolf Rengger: From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835)
  • 5. JosÉ MarÍa Heredia y Heredia: 'In a Storm' (c. 1835)
  • 6. Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda: From Sab (1841)
  • 7. Domingo F. Sarmiento: 'Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic' (1845)
  • 8. JosÉ MarÍa Samper: 'The Marvelous Exuberance of Life and the Forces of Nature…' (1861)
  • Chapter 4: Regionalism and the Export Boom
  • 1. JosÉ MartÍ: 'Our America' (1891)
  • 2. Baldomero Lillo: 'The Invalids,' from Sub-terra (1904)
  • 3. Horacio Quiroga: 'The Log-Fishermen' (1913)
  • 4. JosÉ Eustasio Rivera: from The Vortex (1924)
  • 5. CÉsar Uribe Piedrahita: 'Mun Hospital,' from Oil Stain (1935)
  • 6. Juan MarÍn: from 53rd Parallel South (1936)
  • 7. Graciliano Ramos: 'The Birds,' from Barren Lives (1938)
  • 8. RamÓn Amaya Amador: 'Green Destiny,' from Green Prison (1950)
  • Chapter 5: Modern Metropoles
  • 1. JuliÁn del Casal: 'In the Country' (1893)
  • 2. Rafael Barrett: 'Tree Haters' (1907)
  • 3. Manuel GonzÁlez Prada: 'Le Tour du PropriÉtaire' (1911)
  • 4. Pierre Quiroule: from The American Anarchist City (1914)
  • 5. Oswald de Andrade: 'Cannibalist Manifesto' (1928)
  • 6. RubÉn DarÍo: 'Reincarnations' (1890); 'Philosophy' (1905); 'Song of the Pines' (1907), and 'Revelation' (1907)
  • 7. Alfonsina Storni: 'You Wish I Were Fair' (1918); 'Sadness' (1920); 'Slum Rosebushes' (1920), and 'Buenos Aires DanzÓn' (1938)
  • 8. MarÍa Luis Bombal: 'The Tree' (1939)
  • Chapter 6: Developmentalism
  • 1. Pablo Neruda: 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' (1950)
  • 2. Juan Rulfo: 'Luvina' (1953)
  • 3. Lydia Cabrera: 'The Ceiba,' from The Woods (1954)
  • 4. JosÉ MarÍa Arguedas: 'Bridge Over the World,' from Deep Waters (1958)
  • 5. Esteban Montejo: 'Life in the Woods,' from Biography of a Runaway Slave (1966)
  • 6. Clarice Lispector: from The Passion According to G.H. (1964)
  • 7. Carlos Drummond de Andrade: 'Farewell to the Seven Falls' (1982)
  • 8. Rigoberta MenchÚ: from I, Rigoberta MenchÚ: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985)
  • Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Globalization
  • 1. Chico Mendes: 'The Landowners Strike Back,' from Fight for the forest (1989)
  • 2. Octavio Paz: from 'In Search of the Present,' (Nobel Lecture) (1990)
  • 3. Juan Carlos Galeano: 'Curupira;' 'Dark Shamans;' 'Cantagalo,' and 'Lupuna' (1992)
  • 4. Fernando Contreras Castro: from Única looking out to sea (1994)
  • 5. Gioconda Belli: from Waslala (1996)
  • 6. Subcommandant Marcos: A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999)
  • 7. Eduardo del Llano: 'Greenpeace' (2000)
  • 8. Esthela CalderÓn: 'The Woman I Could Have Been;' 'Seed of I Don’t Know What,' and 'Talking with My Worms' (2012)
  • Chapter 8: End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction
  • 1. Homero Aridjis: 'Uncreation' (1994); 'The Last Night of the World' (1994); 'The Hunt for the Red Jaguar' (2005), and 'Images of Butterflies' (2014)
  • 2. JosÉ Emilio Pacheco: 'Equation to the First Degree, with Unknown Quantity;' 'Whales;' 'Augury,' and 'Baboon Babble' (1993)
  • 3. Mayra Montero: 'Indian Hut,' from In the Palm of Darkness (1997)
  • 4. Jaime HuenÚn: 'Ceremony of Love' and 'Ceremony of Death' (1998)
  • 5. Samanta Schweblin: from Fever Dream (2014)
  • 6. Berta CÁceres: Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015)
  • 7. Pope Francis: from Laudato Si’ (2015)
  • 8. Eduardo Chirinos: 'The K/T Boundary Chronicle;' 'The Toba Chronicle,' and 'The Chernobyl Chronicle' (2013)
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index


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    Product Details
    • ISBN-13: 9780810142633
    • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
    • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
    • Edition: Abridged edition
    • Language: English
    • Returnable: Y
    • Weight: 775 gr
    • ISBN-10: 0810142635
    • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2020
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Height: 254 mm
    • No of Pages: 376
    • Spine Width: 30 mm
    • Width: 177 mm


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