Nature Fantasies
Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America
Seiten
2023
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-500-0 (ISBN)
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-500-0 (ISBN)
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 | 64 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68448-500-2 / 1684485002 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-500-0 / 9781684485000 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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