Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Paperback
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Changes in the Landscape: Humans and Nature in Nineteenth-Century Latin America - Paperback
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by Jennifer L. French (Editor), Jens Andermann (Contribution by), Ronald Briggs (Contribution by)
Changes in the Landscape is a collection of timely essays that bring the methodologies and commitments of ecocriticism to bear on the study of Latin American literature and cultural production. The book's eleven chapters, written by some of the leading voices in the field, invite readers to consider how the relationship between humans and nonhuman nature was fundamentally transformed during a period when new modes of capitalist production were emerging in the region and around the world. Jennifer L. French's introductory essay provides a historical and theoretical framework for the collection.
Ranging from the immediate aftermath of the Spanish-American Wars of Independence (1810-1826) to the early twentieth century (1925), the volume's essays cover a wide variety of genres and forms of cultural production, from Jos? Hern?ndez's epic poem Mart?n Fierro to prose fiction, painting and photography, and the personal albums compiled by Spanish-American women. Individually and collectively, the essays engage with scientific writing as both a discourse of power and a source of potentially significant, even revelatory information about human and nonhuman nature. Changes in the Landscape enables readers to more fully understand the transition from colonial regimes to the ecocidal extractivism of the export boom (1870-1930) by drawing out and analyzing some of the cognitive resources and rhetorical strategies that were available to imagine, protest, or enact new norms and expectations regarding the relations between human and nonhuman life, be it the life of wildflowers, waterfalls, or Cuba's Ci?naga de Zapata.Author Biography
Jennifer L. French is the Rosenburg Professor of Environmental Studies and Spanish at Williams College.
Number of Pages: 300
Dimensions: 0.64 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: February 07, 2025
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