The natural world in Latin American literatures : ecocritical essays on twentieth century writings, edited by Adrian Taylor Kane

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The natural world in Latin American literatures : ecocritical essays on twentieth century writings, edited by Adrian Taylor Kane

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ecocritical essays on twentieth century writings

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edited by Adrian Taylor Kane

Instantiates

• The natural world in Latin American literatures : ecocritical essays on twentieth century writings

Publication

• Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2010

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Preface / Adrian Taylor Kane -- I. Nature, modernity and technology in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. Ecological criticism and Spanish American fiction: an overview / Jonathan Tittler; Nature and the discourse of modernity in Spanish American avant-garde fiction / Adrian Taylor Kane; Nature in the twentieth-century Latin American novel (1900-1967) and in Cien años de soledad of Garciá Maŕquez. / Raymond L. Williams; The long and winding road of technology from María to Cien años de soledad to Mantra : an ecocritical reading / Gustavo Llarull -- II. Environmental utopias and dystopias. Caribbean utopias and dystopias : the emergence of the environmental writer and artist / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; Paradise lost : a reading of Waslala from the perspectives of feminist utopianism and ecofeminism / Marisa Pereyra; Barbarian civilization : travel and landscape in Don Segundo Sombra and the contemporary Argentinean novel / Martin Camps -- III. Ecology and the subaltern. Dissecting environmental racism : redirecting the "toxic" in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood and Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus / Dora Ramírez-Dhoore; Nature as articulate and inspirited : Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos / Traci Roberts-Camps; National nature and ecologies of abjection in Brazilian literature at the turn of the twentieth Century / Mark D. Anderson -- Epilogue : "beyond the telluric novel" / Adrian Taylor Kane

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550553869

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24 cm

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viii, 244 p.

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9780786442874

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(softcover : alk. paper)

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2010008149

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ill.

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.b29727121

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(OCoLC)550553869