Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1 To Discover, an Intransitive Verb: Christopher Columbus’s First Encounter with the American Landscape......Page 16
2 Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca......Page 32
3 Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics......Page 46
4 Andrés Bello’s “Ode to Tropical Agriculture”: The Landscape of Independence......Page 60
5 “I Do Not Weep for Camaguey”: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Nineteenth-Century Cuban Landscape......Page 74
6 Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões): The Darwinian Landscape......Page 90
7 Yuyos Are Not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga......Page 108
8 The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara......Page 124
9 “It didn’t work, Mother. You should have let me stay here.” Alegría’s and Flakoll’s Ashes of Izalco......Page 138
10 Pablo Neruda’s Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature......Page 152
11 Love in the Time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli’s Ambivalent Ecofeminism......Page 166
12 The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro’s Unica mirando al mar......Page 184
Works Cited......Page 194
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M......Page 208
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W......Page 210