Hispanic Ecocriticism

ISBN-13: 9783631785508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Jose Manuel Marrero Henriquez

Opis

Hispanic Ecocriticism finds a rich soil in the main topics of environmental concern in the literature of Latin America and Spain, not only as a source for renewing critical analysis and hermeneutics, but also for the benefit of global environmental awareness. In a renewed exchange of transatlantic relationships, Hispanic Ecocriticism intermingles Latin American ecocritical issues of interest - the oil industry; contamination of forests and rivers; urban ecologies; African, Andean, and Amazonian biocultural ecosystems - with those of interest in Spain - animal rights and the ecological footprints of human activity in contemporary narratives of eco-science fiction, in dystopias, and in literature inspired by natural or rural landscapes that conceal ways of life and cultures in peril of extinction.

Spis treści

Ecocriticism - Hispanism - Poetics of Breathing - Amazonian Studies - Latin American Gender Studies - Literature of the Enlightenment - Pluriculturalism - Spanish Contemporary Narrative - Latin American Studies - Animal Studies - Petrofiction - Maya Poetry - Cuban Literature - Víctor Montejo - Juan José Saer - Urban Ecology - Hispanic Literature.

O autorze

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez is a key figure in Hispanic and European ecocriticism. Poet, writer, essayist, and tenured professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, he has published extensively on landscape and animal representation in literature and on a variety of topics and authors of the Spanish and Latin American literary traditions.