Nature Fantasies - Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America

Nature Fantasies is a work of literary criticism and theory that presents and critiques a current of Latin American thought characterized by a desire to return to nature. It considers how nature fantasies involved in the decolonization and the formation of the Latin American nation state have turned into an engine of the state’s undoing.

Sommario

Introduction

Part I

1          The Natural History of Latin American Independence

2          Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition

Part II

3          The Fantasy of the Creole as White Indian

4          The End of History and the Return to Nature

5          The Garden, the Camp, and the Biopolitical State

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

GABRIEL HOROWITZ is an assistant professor of Spanish at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

Riassunto

In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gabriel Horowitz
• Editore: Rutgers University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781684485000
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-500-0
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin Amer
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza