Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape
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UNIQUE APPROACH: To date, no book exists that approaches Latin American literatures with the methodology known as Ecocriticism. There are Feminist approaches, as well as Marxist, Freudian, and Structuralist approaches, but no Ecocritical approach. The Latin American world lends itself well to an ecocritical approach. On the one side there is the urban landscape, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Quito, Brasilia, and on the other there is the natural environment, the tropical forest that was once threatening and now needs to be saved, the waterfalls, the deserts, the diverse ecosystems; these two landscapes shape, change, and create each otherCOURSE ADOPTION: At the present time just about every Spanish and Luso-Brazilian department in American universities offers Latin American civilization. Universities outside the U.S. are following suit. Most recently, these courses have been including ecology in the syllabus. This book is a valuable tool for the study of Latin American civilization. This book can also be used in a survey course of Latin American literature in translation, since it spans the Latin American letters from Columbus to modern times
Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
BEATRIZ RIVERA-BARNES is Associate Professor of Spanish at Penn State Worthington Scranton, USA. JERRY HOEG is Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
