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A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature (Paperback)
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A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature (Paperback)
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A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American
Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of
the region's literature from the foundational texts of the
nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with
a consideration of the way in which Argentine Domingo Faustino
Sarmiento's views of nature through the lens of the categories of
"civilization" and "barbarity" from Facundo (1845) are
systematically challenged and revised in the rest of the century.
Subsequently, this book develops the argument that a vital part of
the cultural critique and aesthetic innovations of Spanish American
modernismo involve an ecological challenge to deepening discourses
of untamed development from Europe and the United States. In other
chapters, many of the well-established titles of regional and
indigenista literature are contrasted to counter-traditions within
those genres that express aspects of environmental justice, "deep
ecology," the relational role of emotion in nature protectionism
and conservationism, even the rights of non-human nature. Finally,
the concluding chapters find that the articulation of ecological
advocacy in recent fiction is both more explicit than what came
before but also impacts the formal elements of literature in unique
ways. Textual conventions such as language, imagery, focalization,
narrative sequence, metafiction, satire, and parody represent
innovations of form that proceed directly from the ethical advocacy
of environmentalism. The book concludes with comments about what
must follow as a result of the analysis including the revision of
canon, the development of literary criticism from novel approaches
such as critical animal studies, and the advent of a critical
dialogue within the bounds of Spanish American environmentalist
literature. A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish
American Literature attempts to develop a sense of the way in which
ecological ideas have developed over time in the literature,
particularly the way in which many Spanish American texts
anticipate several of the ecological discourses that have recently
become so central to global culture, current environmentalist
thought, and the future of humankind.
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