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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798778403321

Titolo

Ecological crisis and cultural representation in Latin America : ecocritical perspectives on art, film, and literature / / edited by Mark Anderson and Zélia M. Bora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-3096-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

809.9336

Soggetti

Ecocriticism - Latin America

Environmentalism in art

Environmentalism in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Declarations of Ecological Crisis; Chapter One: Latin America in the World-Ecology; Chapter Two: Mythologies of Gold in Chocó; Chapter Three: Anthropomorphism and Arboricide; Chapter Four: The "Brevity of the Planet"; Section 2: Representational Crises; Chapter Five: The "Monstrous Head" and the "Mouth of Hell"; Chapter Six: The Grounds of Crisis and the Geopolitics of Depth; Chapter Seven: A Crisis in Environmental Representation; Chapter Eight: The Languages of Ecological Crises in Brazilian Documentary and Fiction

Chapter Nine: Ecozones of the North and the SouthSection 3: Decolonial Ecologies; Chapter Ten: Mining and Indigenous Cosmopolitics; Chapter Eleven: Ecological Crisis and the Re-Enchantment of Nature in Jaime Huenún's Reducciones; Chapter Twelve: Animales de alquiler; Chapter Thirteen: Hippopotami, Humans, and Habitat; Section 4: Ongoing Crises; Chapter Fourteen: Amazonia; Chapter Fifteen: The Nicaragua Canal and the Shifting Currents of Sandinista Environmental Policy; Chapter Sixteen: Tourism, Ecology, and Changing US-Cuba Relations; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

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, focusing not only on the representation of ecological crises and their effects, but also their transformative potential and possibilities for generating sustainable futures.