The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

Author : Gisela Heffes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810142633
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latin American Eco-cultural Reader written by Gisela Heffes and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.

Author : Jennifer French
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810142651
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latin American Ecocultural Reader written by Jennifer French and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.

Author : Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813045481
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction written by Laura Barbas-Rhoden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Fornoff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484054
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema written by Carolyn Fornoff and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism. Together they grapple with how Latin American filmmakers have attempted to "push past the human," and destabilize the myth of anthropocentric exceptionalism that has historically been privileged by cinema and has led to the current climate crisis. While some chapters question the very nature of this enterprise—whether cinema should or even could actualize such a maneuver beyond the human—others signal the ways in which the category of the "human" itself is interrogated by Latin American cinema, revealed to be a fiction that excludes more than it unifies. This volume explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis. As the first volume to specifically address how such questions are staged by Latin American cinema, this book brings together analysis of films that respond to environmental degradation, as well as those that articulate a posthumanist ethos that blurs the line between species.

Author : Paquito D'Rivera
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810125242
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Sax Life written by Paquito D'Rivera and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of 2005 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Winner of 2005 National Medal of Arts Since defecting from Cuba in 1980—and indeed long before that in his native land— Paquito D'Rivera has received glowing praise time and again. A best-selling artist with more than thirty solo albums to his credit, D'Rivera has performed at the White House and the Blue Note, and with orchestras, jazz ensembles, and chamber groups around the world. My Sax Life is the English-language edition of D'Rivera's memoirs, published to acclaim in 1998. Propelled by jazz-fueled high spirits, D'Rivera's story soars and spins from memory to memory in a collage of his remarkable life. D'Rivera recalls his early nightclub appearances as a child, performing with clowns and exotic dancers, as well as his search for artistic freedom in communist Cuba and his hungry explorations of world music after his defection. Opinionated but always good-humored, My Sax Life is a fascinating statement on art and the artist's life.

Author : Matilde Mellibovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circle of Love Over Death written by Matilde Mellibovsky and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Circle of Love Over Death, Matilde Mellibovsky documents the testimonies of mothers whose children were stripped from them in Argentina during the turbulent 1970s. She not only describes the personal anguish of families over the torture, death or "disappearance" of their children, but also shows how the women gave emotional support to each other and the way in which, since 1976, they slowly but surely organized and built an international movement.

Author : Ana del Sarto
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333401
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader written by Ana del Sarto and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by intellectuals and specialists in Latin American cultural studies that provide a comprehensive view of the specific problems, topics, and methodologies of the field vis-a-vis British and U.S. cultural studies.

Author : B. Rivera-Barnes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101909
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape written by B. Rivera-Barnes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark Anderson
Publisher : Ecocritical Theory and Practice
ISBN 13 : 9781498530958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America written by Mark Anderson and published by Ecocritical Theory and Practice. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.

Author : Jens Andermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110775905
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics written by Jens Andermann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.