Description
Book SynopsisEcocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience presents a distinct view of the diverse social and physical geographies of the Americas, their political and cultural connections to the Iberian Peninsula, and their relationship to the environment in its diverse representations. The topics ranging from myths and legends, poetics, young adult literature, arts and performance, to cinematography by women dialogue across chapters reveal a persistent usage of nature and environment as recurrent themes. Through visual and plastic arts, as well as poetic narratives of social utopias/dystopias, the contributors provide original readings on the effects of societal views and struggles to protect and consciously exploit the natural world. The uniqueness of this book relies therefore on the geographical and cultural approach to the poetics of nature and its metaphorical and physical embodiment, place and geography through utopian and dystopian world recreation and representation, and finally the nexus with ecology and social actors.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience
J. Manuel Gómez
I Ecopoetics
1. Antonio Colina’s Poetics of Feminine Geographic Spaces
Maria C. Fellie
2. Latin American Women’s Ecocinema: Indigenous Nations, the Tourist Gaze, and Global Screens in El verano de los peces voladores
Victoria Jara
3. The Affective Force of the Landscape in Cristina Rivera Garza’s El mal de la taiga
Rafael Andúgar
II Ecodystopias
4. From “Earth’s Best Friend” to “Unkillable Ghost” (and Back Again): A Literary History of Kudzu in the American South
Megan Cole
5. Voice of a Region, Matter of the World: The Ecological Landscape in A.M. Pires Cabral’s Poetry
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
6. Ibero-American Images: Ecocritical Tales
J. Manuel Gómez
III: Ecojustice
7. Of Monsters and Men: An Ecocritical Perspective of Isabel Allende’s Young Adult Literature
Victoria Ketz
8. Decolonizing Nature and Indigenous Representation from Chilean Pre-Columbians Art to Mapuche Poetry
Julia A. Kushigian
9. Environmental Justice/Social Justice: Úselo y tírelo (Eduardo Galeano, 1994)
Elizabeth Rivero
About the Contributors
