عنوان

Reading and writing the Latin American landscape

شابک

0230101909

شابک

9780230101906

شماره

b546281

عنوان اصلي

Reading and writing the Latin American landscape

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Basingstoke

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Palgrave Macmillan

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

(vi, 203 pages)

متن يادداشت

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 To Discover, an Intransitive Verb: Christopher Columbus's First Encounter with the American Landscape; 2 Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca; 3 Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics; 4 Andrés Bello's "Ode to Tropical Agriculture": The Landscape of Independence; 5 "I Do Not Weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Nineteenth-Century Cuban Landscape; 6 Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões): The Darwinian Landscape. 7 Yuyos Are Not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga8 The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara; 9 "It didn't work, Mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco; 10 Pablo Neruda's Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature; 11 Love in the Time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's Ambivalent Ecofeminism; 12 The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar; Works Cited; Index.

متن يادداشت

Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, asking questions that contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ecology in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Latin American literature -- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Nature in literature.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jerry Hoeg

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y