Nature Fantasies

Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America

Gabriel Horowitz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2023
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-499-7 (ISBN)

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In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation’s foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a “biopolitical state,” in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.

GABRIEL HOROWITZ is an assistant professor of Spanish at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

Introduction

Part I

1          The Natural History of Latin American Independence

2          Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition

Part II

3          The Fantasy of the Creole as White Indian

4          The End of History and the Return to Nature

5          The Garden, the Camp, and the Biopolitical State

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	0 illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	41 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-68448-499-5 / 1684484995
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-499-7 / 9781684484997
Zustand	Neuware