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Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Editat de Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Pettinaroli
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2021
Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation.





The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational.Ecofictions, Ecorealitiesand Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032084824
ISBN-10: 1032084820
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Contents




Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World






List of Figures




Acknowledgements







Introduction


Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli




Part I


Bad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms




1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate


Ana María Mutis




2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations


Gisela Heffes




3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666


Diana Aldrete




Part II


Econarratives and Ecopoetics of Slow Violence




4 The Representation of Slow Violence and the Spatiality of Injustice in Y tu mamá también and Temporada de patos


Laura Barbas-Rhoden




5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl Button


Ida Day




6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War’s Slow Violence in Nicaragua


Jacob Price




Part III


Protracted Degradation and the Slow Violence of Toxicity




7 Collateral Damage: Nature and the Accumulation of Capital in Héctor Aguilar Camín’s El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement’s Prayers for the Stolen


Adrian Taylor Kane




8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los


ejércitos


Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo




9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Nuestra Señora de la Noche


Charlotte Rogers




Part IV


Materialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis




10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in Mulaka


Lauren Woolbright




11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global South


Thaiane Oliveira




12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Käfig’s Eco-Dance Performances


Ilka Kressner




13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina)


Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli







Contributors




Index

Notă biografică

Ilka Kressner received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. She is currently Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York.


Ana María Mutis received her Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University.


Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at the University of Virginia. She is currently Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rhodes College.

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Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence.