Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts,asking questions that contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences. INDICE: - To Discover, an Intransitive Verb; Christopher Columbus's First Encounter with the American Landscape - Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca - Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics - Andrés Bello's 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture': The Landscape of Independence - 'Ido not Weep for Camaguey': Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's 19th Century CubanLandscape - Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões): The Darwinian Landscape - Yuyos are not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga - The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara - 'It didn't work, Mother. You should have letme stay here.' Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco - Pablo Neruda's LatinAmerican Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature - Love in the Time of Somoza: (Gioconda Belli's Ambivalent Ecofeminism) - The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61519-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés