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Zusatztext “The core chapters will certainly serve as useful critical companions to graduate and undergraduate courses on literature, visual art, and landscape seeking a diversity of global perspectives. … The Environmental Imaginary also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning field of the environmental humanities by questioning the very terms in which current debates over development, climate change, and the value of the human and the more-than-human are carried out.” (Darien Lamen, Luso-Brazilian Revie, Vol. 53 (2), Winter, 2016) Informationen zum Autor Malcolm K. McNee is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith College, USA. Klappentext This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity! place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach! McNee puts Brazilian culture! through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists! into a broader! transnational dialogue. Zusammenfassung This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity! place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach! McNee puts Brazilian culture! through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists! into a broader! transnational dialogue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Land that Seemed to Us Quite Vast 1. Ecopoetry and Earth Art: Theoretical Orientations and Brazilian Inflections 2. Manoel de Barros and Astrid Cabral: Between Backyard Swamps and the Cosmos 3. Sérgio Medeiros and Josely Vianna Baptista: Meta-Landscape and the (Re)Turn of the Native 4. Frans Krajcberg and Bené Fonteles: Art, Anti-Art, and Environmentalist Engagement 5. Lia do Rio and Nuno Ramos: The Art of Nature Estranged Epilogue: Notes from the Creative Margins of Rio+20
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Introduction: Land that Seemed to Us Quite Vast 1. Ecopoetry and Earth Art: Theoretical Orientations and Brazilian Inflections 2. Manoel de Barros and Astrid Cabral: Between Backyard Swamps and the Cosmos 3. Sérgio Medeiros and Josely Vianna Baptista: Meta-Landscape and the (Re)Turn of the Native 4. Frans Krajcberg and Bené Fonteles: Art, Anti-Art, and Environmentalist Engagement 5. Lia do Rio and Nuno Ramos: The Art of Nature Estranged Epilogue: Notes from the Creative Margins of Rio+20
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"The core chapters will certainly serve as useful critical companions to graduate and undergraduate courses on literature, visual art, and landscape seeking a diversity of global perspectives. ... The Environmental Imaginary also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning field of the environmental humanities by questioning the very terms in which current debates over development, climate change, and the value of the human and the more-than-human are carried out." (Darien Lamen, Luso-Brazilian Revie, Vol. 53 (2), Winter, 2016)
