Reading and writing the Latin American landscape
By: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
Contributors: Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230615199
Subjects: Latin American literature -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Conservation of natural resources in literature; Philosophy of nature in literature; Ecocriticism; Literature and society -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: To discover, an intransitive verb: Christopher Columbus's first encounter  with the American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Is there such a thing as too much water? yhe hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture": the landscape of independence / Jerry Hoeg; title: "I do not weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's 19th century Cuban landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape /  Jerry Hoeg; title: Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga /  Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: The landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara / Jerry Hoeg; title: "It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and  Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape: nations, economy, nature / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: Love in the time of Somoza: (Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism) / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes; title: The landscape of the consumer society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar / Jerry Hoeg.