Reading and Writing the Latin American

This book is an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American literatures and ecology. The research spans 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, scrutinizing the ecological implications and the relationship between man and nature, or nature and culture. Some of the questions involved in this approach are: How does a text represent the physical world? What moral questions are raised relative to man's interaction with nature? How does a text bring the reader's awareness to a specific ecosystem? This approach will prove that environmental degradation is a tangible and measurable reality and this book will contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes is Associate Professor of Spanish at Penn State Worthington Scranton. She is the author of many scholarly essays on Minor/Minority literature and ecocriticism that have been published in various refereed journals. She is also the author of three novels and a collection of short stories, a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Fiction prize for her novel Do Not Pass Go, and the recipient of the 2007 International Latino Book Award for that same novel. Forthcoming is Rivera´s fourth novel, When a Tree Falls.

Jerry Hoeg is Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2000), numerous articles on the relations between the sciences and the humanities, and editor of the journal Ometeca.

Introduction	p. 1
To Discover, an Intransitive Verb: Christopher Columbus's First Encounter with the American Landscape	p. 9
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca	p. 25
Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics	p. 39
Andrés Bello's "Ode to Tropical Agriculture": The Landscape of Independence	p. 53
"I Do Not Weep for Camaguey": Gertradis Gómez de Avellaneda's Nineteenth-Century Cuban Landscape	p. 67
Rebellion in the Backlands (Or Sertões): The Darwinian Landscape	p. 83
Yuyos Are Not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga	p. 101
The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara	p. 117
"It didn't work, Mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco	p. 131
Pablo Neruda's Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature	p. 145
Love in the Time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's Ambivalent Ecofeminism	p. 159
The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar	p. 177
Works Cited	p. 187
Index	p. 199
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