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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's
conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolome
de las Casas dedicated his Brevisima Relacion de la Destruicion de
las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of
the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevisima Relacion
catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the
king's colonists in the New World. The result is a withering
indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over
the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization
of it. Andrew Hurley's daring new translation dramatically
foreshortens that 500 years by reversing the usual priority of a
translation; rather than bring the Brevisima Relacion to the
reader, it brings the reader to the Brevisima Relacion -- not as it
is, but as it might have been, had it been originally written in
English. The translator thus allows himself no words or devices
unavailable in English by 1560, and in so doing reveals the
prophetic voice, urgency and clarity of the work, qualities often
obscured in modern translations. An Introduction by Franklin
Knight, notes, a map, and a judicious set of
Bartolom 's eye-opening account of Spanish colonialism in the early
to mid-16th century has for centuries been a pivotal source on the
topic. Following the discovery of the Americas by Christopher
Columbus in 1497, a great interest in the new and virgin lands was
sparked in Europe. Spain, eager to capitalise on the great
resources and wealth present, sent successive fleets of vessels to
the Caribbean to set up colonial outposts as footholds in the new
continent. Despite being small in number, the Spanish colonists had
superior arms and were able to forcibly subdue the native
populations. Murder, rape and other atrocities were commonplace in
the process, with many natives afterwards becoming enslaved. While
wealth was amassed, the moral depravity involved would appal the
socially conscious at home. For his part, Las Casas would assume
place as a dogged defender of West Indian peoples, putting pressure
on the Spanish court to enact laws protecting native welfare.
Bartolom 's eye-opening account of Spanish colonialism in the early
to mid-16th century has for centuries been a pivotal source on the
topic. Following the discovery of the Americas by Christopher
Columbus in 1497, a great interest in the new and virgin lands was
sparked in Europe. Spain, eager to capitalise on the great
resources and wealth present, sent successive fleets of vessels to
the Caribbean to set up colonial outposts as footholds in the new
continent. Despite being small in number, the Spanish colonists had
superior arms and were able to forcibly subdue the native
populations. Murder, rape and other atrocities were commonplace in
the process, with many natives afterwards becoming enslaved. While
wealth was amassed, the moral depravity involved would appal the
socially conscious at home. For his part, Las Casas would assume
place as a dogged defender of West Indian peoples, putting pressure
on the Spanish court to enact laws protecting native welfare.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
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