Ibero-American Ecocriticism - Cultural and Social Explorations

This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, while proposing new readings, interpretations, and solutions in the face of urgent environmental issues.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience
J. Manuel Gómez
I Ecopoetics
1. Antonio Colina's Poetics of Feminine Geographic Spaces
Maria C. Fellie
2. Latin American Women's Ecocinema: Indigenous Nations, the Tourist Gaze, and Global Screens in El verano de los peces voladores
Victoria Jara
3. The Affective Force of the Landscape in Cristina Rivera Garza's El mal de la taiga
Rafael Andúgar
II Ecodystopias
4. From "Earth's Best Friend" to "Unkillable Ghost" (and Back Again): A Literary History of Kudzu in the American South
Megan Cole
5. Voice of a Region, Matter of the World: The Ecological Landscape in A.M. Pires Cabral's Poetry
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
6. Ibero-American Images: Ecocritical Tales
J. Manuel Gómez
III: Ecojustice
7. Of Monsters and Men: An Ecocritical Perspective of Isabel Allende's Young Adult Literature
Victoria Ketz
8. Decolonizing Nature and Indigenous Representation from Chilean Pre-Columbians Art to Mapuche Poetry
Julia A. Kushigian
9. Environmental Justice/Social Justice: Úselo y tírelo (Eduardo Galeano, 1994)
Elizabeth Rivero
About the Contributors

About the author

J. Manuel Gómez is associate professor and director of the Hispanic Institute at La Salle University.

Summary

This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, while proposing new readings, interpretations, and solutions in the face of urgent environmental issues.

Product details

• Authors: J. Manuel Gomez
• Assisted by: J. Manuel Gomez (Editor), J Manuel Gómez (Editor), J. Manuel Gómez (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2023
• EAN: 9781666939354
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-935-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Literature: history & criticism, Conservation of the environment, Society and culture: general, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Hispanic & Latino Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino