Latin American Ecocultural Reader (eBook)

Jennifer French, Gisela Heffes (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
288 Seiten
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
9780810142657 (ISBN)

Infos

The Latin American Ecocultural 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 Jose Marti, Bartolome de las Casas, Ruben Dario, 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 "e;New World"e; and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2020
• Co-Autor: Jose Martin Felix de Arrate y Acosta, Homero Aridjis, Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda, Rafael Barrett, Gioconda Belli, Andres Bello, Simon Bolivar, Maria Luis Bombal, Father Jacinto Moran de Butron, Lydia Cabrera, Berta Caceres, Esthela Calderon, Gaspar de Carvajal, Julian del Casal, Fray Bartolome De Las Casas, Fernando Contreras Castro, Eduardo Chirinos, Francisco Javier de Clavijero, Jose de Acosta, Georges Louis Le Clerc, Christopher Columbus, Ruben Dario, Pope Francis, Juan Carlos Galeano, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Jose Maria Heredia y Heredia, Ramon Amaya Amador, Jaime Huenun, Jean de Lery, Baldomero Lillo, Clarice Lispector, Eduardo del Llano, Subcommandant Marcos, Juan Marin, Jose Marti, Rigoberta Menchu, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Chico Mendes, Juan Ignacio Molina, Esteban Montejo, Mayra Montero, Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Pablo Neruda, Jose Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Paz, Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, Manuel Gonzalez Prada, Horacio Quiroga, Pierre Quiroule, Graciliano Ramos, Johann Rudolf Rengger, Jose Eustasio Rivera, Simon Rodriguez, Juan Rulfo, Jose Maria Samper, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Oswald de Andrade, Samanta Schweblin, Alfonsina Storni, Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo y Valdes, Andre Joao Antonil, Jose Maria Arguedas
• Übersetzer: Bertram T. Lee, Harold V. Livermore, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas, Megan McDowell, George McWhirter, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Rebecca Morgan, Sylvanus G. Morley, Idra Novey, Margaret Sayers Pedan, Charles A. Perrone, G. J. Racz, Kathleen Ross, Jack Schmitt, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, Nina M. Scott, Greg Simon, Anthony Stanton, Ilan Stavans, Janet Whatley, Steven F. White, Chris Whitehouse, Grady C. Wray, Ann Wright, Esther Allen, Harold Augenbraum, Frances Horning Barraclough, Leslie Bary, John Bierhorst, John Charles Chasteen, Timothy Coates, J.M. Cohen, Lucia Cunningham, Richard Cunningham, J. David Danielson, Ralph Edward Dimmick, Arthur Dixon, Steven Dolph, Sandra Ferdman, Frederick H. Fornoff, Delia Goetz, Patricia Gonzalez, Edith Grossman, W. Nick Hill, Andrew Hurley, Paul J. Kaveney, Elizabeth Kieffer, James Kimbrell
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-13: 9780810142657 / 9780810142657