Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape [electronic resource] /
Rivera-Barnes, B.author.
Hoeg, J.author.
Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- To discover, an intransitive verb : Christopher Columbus's first encounter with the American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Is there such a thing as too much water? the hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture" : the landscape of independence / Jerry Hoeg -- "I do not weep for Camaguey" : Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's nineteenth-century Cuban landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape /  Jerry Hoeg -- Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga /  Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscapes of Venezuela : Doña Bárbara / Jerry Hoeg -- "It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here" : Alegría's and  Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape : nations, economy, nature / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Love in the time of Somoza : Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscape of the consumer society : Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar / Jerry Hoeg.
Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 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.
Ethnology—Latin America.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Latin American Culture.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.