From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes across national borders the book develops a new transnational understanding of Hispanic culture in South America and expands the scope of the contemporary environmental humanities.
Texts covered include works by: Ciro Alegrìa, Manoel de Barros, Ezequiel Martìnez Estrada, Rómulo Gallegos, José Eustasio Rivera, João Guimarães Rosa, and Domingo Sarmiento.
| ISBN: | 9781350134294 |
| Publication date: | 20th May 2021 |
| Author: | Axel Perez Trujillo |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | Environmental Cultures Series |
| Genres: |
Ethnic studies Literary studies: postcolonial literature Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |