Fictional Environments : Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saramago, Victoria, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish American fiction.
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecofiction.
Brazilian fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Ecofiction > History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Conservation
  • Chapter 1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas
  • Chapter 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana
  • Part II. Development
  • Chapter 3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
  • Chapter 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada
  • Part III. The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction
  • Chapter 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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