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Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human.
Sommario
Introduction: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil
PART I
Multiple Natures
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, "Nature as Nation"
Rex P. Nielson, "‘Filhos do mesmo solo’: Euclides da Cunha’s Environmental Imagination
Javier Uriarte, "Capital, Bodies, and the Environment in Alberto Rangel’s Stories"
Raúl Antelo, "Cannibal Politics: From the Anthropophagic to the Anthropoemic"
Malcolm K. McNee, "The Pluriversed Landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista: From Ecopoetry to Environmental Humanities"
PART II
Anthropoethnocentrism and the Animal Gaze
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, "A Pale Shade of Violet: Animals and Race in Machado de Assis"
Maria Esther Maciel, "Shared Life: The Zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade"
Ettore Finazzi-Agrò, "The Nature and/of the Animal: Environment and World in the Work of João Guimarães Rosa"
Sérgio Medeiros, "Listening to the Jaguar and the Tapir: An Outline of a Wild Pedagogy"
Patrícia Vieira, "Food Ethics in the Work of Astrid Cabral"
PART III
Present Crises and the Anthropocene
Bruno Carvalho, "The Future as a Necessity: Reading Clarice Lispector in the Anthropocene"
Odile Cisneros, "The Poetry of Garbage in Contemporary Brazilian Culture"
Mark Anderson, "False Gifts and Epidemic Fumes: Extractivism’s Traces and Cosmopolitical Resistances in Davi Kopenawa Yanomami’s The Falling Sky"
PART IV
Closing Contribution
Ailton Krenak, "Thinking With Your Head on Earth"
(Curated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias)
Info autore
Luca Bacchini is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the editor of Maestro Soberano: Ensaios sobre Antonio Carlos Jobim (2017), and the author of Nudi come Adamo: L’immaginario biblico nelle cronache dal Nuovo Mondo (2018).
Victoria Saramago is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (2021).
Riassunto
Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human.
