Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures

This book retraces "the nature of hate" as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and "the hatred of nature" as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.

List of contents

Introduction
Part One: The Iberian World
Chapter 1: Dark Alchemy: Celestina, or the Hatred of Love
Chapter 2: Intimate Haters, Difficult Literatures
Chapter 3: Odium Dei: Miguel de Unamuno's Abel Sánchez
Part Two: Diaries of the Americas
Chapter 4: With Hate Leading the Way: Pieces of Aguirre and Other Doomed Expeditions
Chapter 5: Hating Crows: The Travels of Concolorcorvo! and of Ernesto Guevara
Chapter 6: The Curse of Ham, The Malediction of Changó: Nature and Terror, Mackandal's Brood
Chapter 7: Madness and Hatred. Rivera's Inferno
Chapter 8: Canaima, Ecophobia, and the Anthropocene
Chapter 9: Yes, it Isn't (What Cannot be Said): Poetry to Guayama, Puerto Rico to Loisaida, New York
Chapter 10: Biophilia, Ecophobia, Eco-Odium: A Coupling with the Non-Human, Extinction, and a Loop of Vampiric Mosquitos Threatening the Anthropocene
Chapter 11: Is there a Caliban in this Narrative? The Cooking and the Eating of Hate
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Summary

This book retraces “the nature of hate” as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and “the hatred of nature” as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.

Product details

• Authors: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, Rivera-Barnes Beatriz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781498596480
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9648-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / General, Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / General, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Literature: history & criticism, History of the Americas, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Latin America - Mexico, Central America, South America, Hispanic & Latino Studies