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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823515803321

Titolo

The image of the river in Latin/o American literature : written in the water / / edited by Jeanie Murphy and Elizabeth G. Rivero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-4730-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

860.998

Soggetti

Latin American literature - History and criticism

Rivers in literature

Water in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Memory of Water: Rivers and the Politics and Praxis of Remembrance -- Chapter One: Along the River of Memory -- Chapter Two: Floating Statues and Streams of Consciousness -- Chapter Three: From "Obstinate Memory" to Explosions of Recollections -- II: Rivers at the Crossroads: Borders, Land/Cityscapes, and Social Imaginaries as Contested Spaces -- Chapter Four: The River as Political Quagmire -- Chapter Five: Rippling Borders in Latina Literature -- Chapter Six: Social and Geographical Landscapes -- Chapter Seven: Myth and Reality -- Chapter Eight: Writing the Riverbanks in El libro flotante de Caytran Dölphin by Leonardo Valencia -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Through the lens of ecocriticism, history, memory, and gender studies, this book studies the many ways in which the image of the river has been integrated into Latin/o American literature from the period of exploration and colonization to modern times, examining the imagery and symbolism tied to rivers in the writings of the region.