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" Reading and writing the Latin American landscape "
Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
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BL
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726549
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b546281
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Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
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Reading and writing the Latin American landscape\ Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, ©2010.
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(vi, 203 pages)
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0230101909
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: 9780230101906
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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.
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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.
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Ecology in literature.
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Latin American literature -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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PQ7081.B438 2010
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Beatriz Rivera-Barnes
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Jerry Hoeg
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