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

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.9336
• Soggetto topico: Ecocriticism - Latin America; Environmentalism in art; Environmentalism in motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): AndersonMark; BoraZélia M.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecological crisis and cultural representation in Latin America
• ISBN: 1-4985-3096-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798778403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ecocritical theory and practice.