Ibero-American Ecocriticism

Cultural and Social Explorations

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3935-4 (ISBN)

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This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, while proposing new readings, interpretations, and solutions in the face of urgent environmental issues.

Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience presents a distinct view of the diverse social and physical geographies of the Americas, their political and cultural connections to the Iberian Peninsula, and their relationship to the environment in its diverse representations. The topics ranging from myths and legends, poetics, young adult literature, arts and performance, to cinematography by women dialogue across chapters reveal a persistent usage of nature and environment as recurrent themes. Through visual and plastic arts, as well as poetic narratives of social utopias/dystopias, the contributors provide original readings on the effects of societal views and struggles to protect and consciously exploit the natural world. The uniqueness of this book relies therefore on the geographical and cultural approach to the poetics of nature and its metaphorical and physical embodiment, place and geography through utopian and dystopian world recreation and representation, and finally the nexus with ecology and social actors.

J. Manuel Gómez is associate professor and director of the Hispanic Institute at La Salle University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience

J. Manuel Gómez

I Ecopoetics

1. Antonio Colina’s Poetics of Feminine Geographic Spaces

Maria C. Fellie

2. Latin American Women’s Ecocinema: Indigenous Nations, the Tourist Gaze, and Global Screens in El verano de los peces voladores

Victoria Jara

3. The Affective Force of the Landscape in Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga

Rafael Andúgar

II Ecodystopias

4. From “Earth’s Best Friend” to “Unkillable Ghost” (and Back Again): A Literary History of Kudzu in the American South

Megan Cole

5. Voice of a Region, Matter of the World: The Ecological Landscape in A.M. Pires Cabral’s Poetry

Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves

6. Ibero-American Images: Ecocritical Tales

J. Manuel Gómez

III: Ecojustice

7. Of Monsters and Men: An Ecocritical Perspective of Isabel Allende’s Young Adult Literature

Victoria Ketz

8. Decolonizing Nature and Indigenous Representation from Chilean Pre-Columbians Art to Mapuche Poetry

Julia A. Kushigian

9. Environmental Justice/Social Justice: Úselo y tírelo (Eduardo Galeano, 1994)

Elizabeth Rivero

About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	17.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Co-Autor	J. Manuel Gómez, Rafael Andúgar, Megan Cole, Maria C. Fellie
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-3935-8 / 1666939358
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-3935-4 / 9781666939354
Zustand	Neuware