Ibero-American Ecocriticism

This book disrupts the quintessential assumptions of ecology, the politics of identity, and environmental destruction, while proposing new readings, interpretations, and solutions in the face of urgent environmental issues.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ecocriticism: The Ibero-American Experience
J. Manuel Gó mez
I Ecopoetics
1. Antonio Colina's Poetics of Feminine Geographic Spaces
Maria C. Fellie
2. Latin American Women's Ecocinema: Indigenous Nations, the Tourist Gaze, and Global Screens in El verano de los peces voladores
Victoria Jara
3. The Affective Force of the Landscape in Cristina Rivera Garza's El mal de la taiga
Rafael Andú gar
II Ecodystopias
4. From "Earth's Best Friend" to "Unkillable Ghost" (and Back Again): A Literary History of Kudzu in the American South
Megan Cole
5. Voice of a Region, Matter of the World: The Ecological Landscape in A. M. Pires Cabral's Poetry
Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves
6. Ibero-American Images: Ecocritical Tales
J. Manuel Gó mez
III: Ecojustice
7. Of Monsters and Men: An Ecocritical Perspective of Isabel Allende's Young Adult Literature
Victoria Ketz
8. Decolonizing Nature and Indigenous Representation from Chilean Pre-Columbians Art to Mapuche Poetry
Julia A. Kushigian
9. Environmental Justice/Social Justice: Ú selo y tí relo (Eduardo Galeano, 1994)
Elizabeth Rivero
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