The Latin American ecocultural reader

• Titel: The Latin American ecocultural reader
• Mitwirkende: French, Jennifer L. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Heffes, Gisela [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes
• Verlagsort: Evanston, Illinois
• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xv, 358 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-352
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-4263-3
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-4264-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Natur <Motiv> / (s)Umwelt <Motiv>
• Dokumenttyp: Anthologie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: IQ 00312
• K10plus-PPN: 1702008606

Abstract

Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental Culture -- New World Natures -- "Letter to Various Persons Describing the Results of His First Voyage and Written on the Return Journey" (1493) / Christopher Columbus -- From General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-57) / Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés -- From The Discovery of the Amazon (ca. 1542) / Gaspar de Carvajal -- "Plague of Ants" (ca. 1561) / Bartolomé de las Casas -- "Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil" (1578) / Jean de Léry -- "Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures That Will Be Dealt with in This History" (1590) / José de Acosta -- From Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya (ca. 1554-58; 1701) -- From Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609) / Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca -- Creole Landscapes -- From The Spiritual Conquest Accomplished by the Religious of the Society of Jesus in the Provinces of Paraguay, Paraná, Uruguay, and Tapé (1639) / Antonio Ruiz de Montoya -- From The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima, Patron Saint of America, the Philippines, and the Indies (1897) / Saint Rosa of Lima (canonized 1671) -- "She Flees to the Desert and God Sends Her Back Home" (1697) / Saint Mariana of Quito -- From Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711) / André João Antonil -- From Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-88) / Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count Buffon -- "On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of This City and the Entertainment and Recreation Outings That One Enjoys" (1761) / José Martín Félix de Arrate y Acosta -- From Geographical Description of Mexico (1780) / Francisco Javier de Clavijero -- From The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782) / Juan Ignacio Molina -- Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States -- "My Delirium on Chimborazo" (1822) / Simón Bolívar -- "Ode to Tropical Agriculture" (1826) / Andrés Bello -- "Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya with regard to the Project of Redirecting the Natural Course of its Waters and Transporting them along the Zumbai River to the Fields of Arequipa" (1830) / Simón Rodríguez -- From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835) / Johann Rudolf Rengger -- "In a Storm" (1822) / José María Heredia y Heredia -- From Sab (1841) / Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda -- "Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic, and the Ideas, Customs, and Characters It Engenders" (1845) / Domingo F. Sarmiento -- "Former Physical and Social Conditions of the New World" (1861) / José María Samper -- Regionalism and the Export Boom -- "Our America" (1891) / José Martí -- "The Invalids" (1904) / Baldomero Lillo -- "The Log-Fishermen" (1913) / Horacio Quiroga -- From The Vortex (1924) / José Eustasio RiveraH -- "Mun Hospital" (1935) / César Uribe Piedrahita -- From 53rd Parallel South (1936) / Juan Marín -- "The Birds" (1938) / Graciliano Ramos -- "Green Destiny" (1950) / Ramón Amaya Amador -- Modern Metropoles -- "In the Country" (1893) / Julián del Casal -- "Tree Haters" (1907) / Rafael Barrett -- "Le tour du propriétaire" (1911) / Manuel González Prada -- From The American Anarchist City (1914) / Pierre Quiroule -- "Cannibalist Manifesto" (1928) / Oswald de Andrade -- Poems (1890-1907) / Rubén Darío -- Poems (1918-38) / Alfonsina Storni -- "The Tree" (1939) / María Luisa Bombal -- Developmentalism -- "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" (1947) / Pablo Neruda -- "Luvina" (1953) / Juan Rulfo -- "The Ceiba Tree" (1954) / Lydia Cabrera -- "Bridge over the World" (1958) / Jose̹ Mari̹a Arguedas -- "Life in the Woods" (1966) / Esteban Montejo -- From The Passion According to G.H. (1964) / Clarice Lispector -- "Farewell to the Seven Falls" (1982) / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- From I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985) / Rigoberta Menchú -- Neoliberalism and Globalization -- "The Landowners Strike Back" (1989) / Chico Mendes -- "In Search of the Present" (1990) / Octavio Paz -- From Única Looking Out to Sea (1994) / Fernando Contreras Castro -- From Waslala (1996) / Gioconda Belli -- Subcomandante Marcos -- A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999) -- "Greenpeace" (2000) / Eduardo del Llano -- Poems (2008-12) / Esthela Calderón -- Poems (2014) / Juan Carlos Galeano -- End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction -- Poems (1993) / José Emilio Pacheco -- Poems (1994-2014) / Homero Aridjis -- "Indian Hut" (1997) / Mayra Montero -- "Ceremony of Love"; "Ceremony of Death" (1998) / Jaime Luis Huenún -- From Fever Dream (2014) / Samanta Schweblin -- Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015) / Berta Cáceres -- From Laudato Si' (2015) / Pope Francis -- Poems (2013) / Eduardo Chirinos.

Abstract

"The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present"--