Ecological crisis and cultural representation in Latin America
Subtitle: ecocritical perspectives on art, film, and literature
By: edited by Mark Anderson and Zélia M. Bora
Series: Ecocritical theory and practice; Ecocritical theory and practice
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781498530958
Subjects: Latin American literature; Ecology in art; History and criticism; Ecocriticism; Environmental protection in art; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Ecology in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Ecology in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1; title: Declarations of Ecological Crisis -- -- 1.; title: Latin America in the World-Ecology: Origins and Crisis  -- Sharae Deckard -- 2.; title: Mythologies of Gold in Choco  -- Juanita C. Aristizabal -- 3.; title: Anthropomorphism and Arboricide: The Life and Death of Trees in the American Tropics  -- Lesley Wylie -- 4.; title: The "Brevity of the Planet": Environmental Loss in Recent Poetry by Contemporary Amazonian Writers  -- Jeremy Larochelle -- Section 2; title: Representational Crises -- -- 5.; title: The "Monstrous Head" and the "Mouth of Hell": The Gothic Ecologies of the "Mexican Miracle"  -- Kerstin Oloff -- 6.; title: The Grounds of Crisis and the Geopolitics of Depth: Mexico City in the Anthropocene  -- Mark Anderson -- 7.; title: A Crisis in Environmental Representation: In-Depth Reporting in a Brazilian Magazine  -- Simao Farias Almeida -- 8.; title: The Languages of Ecological Crises in Brazilian Documentary and Fiction  -- Zelia M. Bora -- 9.; title: Ecozones of the North and the South: Models of Development, Extractive Practices, and Tensions in Freedom and eRRor, un juego con tra(d)icion  -- Mirian Carballo -- Section 3; title: Decolonial Ecologies -- -- 10.; title: Mining and Indigenous Cosmopolitics: The Wirikuta Case  -- Abigail Perez Aguilera -- 11.; title: Ecological Crisis and the Re-Enchantment of Nature in Jaime Huenun's Reducciones  -- Ida Day -- 12.; title: Animates de alquiler: Challenging the Architectures of Domination  -- Maria Victoria Sanchez -- 13.; title: Hippopotami, Humans, and Habitat: Ecological Crisis and Posthuman Subjectivities in Mempo Giardinelli's Imposible equilibrio  -- Diana Dodson Lee -- Section 4; title: Ongoing Crises -- -- 14.; title: Amazonia: Looking for the Earthly Eden and Finding the Planet's Next Landfill  -- Herman Ruiz Abecasis -- 15.; title: The Nicaragua Canal and the Shifting Currents of Sandinista Environmental Policy  -- Adrian Taylor Kane -- 16.; title: Tourism, Ecology, and Changing US-Cuba Relations -- Marcela Reales Visbal.