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Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz.
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Reading and writing the Latin American landscape /
Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
vi, 203 p. ;
22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- To discover, an intransitive verb: Christopher Columbus's first encounter with the American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Is there such a thing as too much water? the hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture": the landscape of independence / Jerry Hoeg -- "I do not weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's nineteenth-century Cuban landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape / Jerry Hoeg -- Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara / Jerry Hoeg -- "It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape: nations, economy, nature / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Love in the time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscape of the consumer society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar / Jerry Hoeg.
Latin American literature
History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Conservation of natural resources in literature.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Literature and society
Latin America.
Hoeg, Jerry,
1951-
Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009034601-b.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1012/2009034601-d.html
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