Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America: FlashPoints, cartea 37
Autor Victoria Saramagoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2020
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.
From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810142602
ISBN-10: 0810142600
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 5 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria FlashPoints
ISBN-10: 0810142600
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 5 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Seria FlashPoints
Notă biografică
VICTORIA SARAMAGO is an assistant professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies at the University of Chicago.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: veredas
2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier’s Gran Sabana
3. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector’s A cidade sitiada
5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: veredas
2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier’s Gran Sabana
3. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector’s A cidade sitiada
5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“The study is thus exemplary for its entirely fresh take on canonical authors and works, as well as for its skillful interweaving of literary analysis with cultural and environmental history. The book is profoundly researched (with a rich apparatus of discursive footnotes), engages productively with a broad spectrum of theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, and persuasively uses the notion of mimesis that allows for a complex, original, and balanced interrelation of fictions and realities.” —Modern Fiction Studies
“Fictional Environments investigates the agency of literary works, not just as objects that reflect environmental degradation or preserve portraits of how certain habitats “used to be,” but also as objects that shape real-world conservationist efforts . . . an exciting addition to the burgeoning field of ecocritical readings of the twentieth-century Latin American canon . . . In clear and convincing prose, Saramago attends to the power of literary mimesis to shape public opinion and even policy in enduring ways that can be felt in the present.” —Hispanic Review
“A major contribution to Latin American literary studies . . . Fictional Environments exemplifies the best of contemporary literary analysis: it brings innovative theoretical and methodological insights to bear on enduring works of literature. Victoria Saramago makes an undeniable case for the continuing importance of literature and its capacity to literally and conceptually shape the world.” —Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
“Saramago gives a new twist to long-standing discussions about the status and function of fictional texts in environmental discourse and criticism, and whether realist and documentary modes are most appropriate for literature on environmental change. Ultimately, her innovative book engages with the more fundamental question of whether fictionality in and of itself gets in the way of ‘environmental messaging.’” —Ursula K. Heise, author of Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
“Fictional Environments: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America makes an important and novel contribution to both Latin American literary history and to environmental humanities independently, and specifically to the incipient but expanding field of Latin American ecocriticism.” —Rachel Price, author of The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil and Spain 1868-1968 (Northwestern, 2014)
“Wide-ranging, starkly original, and sharp, Fictional Environments is full of brilliant insights on the multiple relationships between writing and ecologies. While revisiting canonical texts and bringing together critical traditions often kept apart, Saramago sheds new light on our understanding of conservation, development, and the rights of nature and fiction, in Latin America and beyond. The book never loses sight of what’s at stake as it reflects on the limits and possibilities of literary creation amid ongoing environmental devastation.” —Bruno Carvalho, author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
“Fictional Environments investigates the agency of literary works, not just as objects that reflect environmental degradation or preserve portraits of how certain habitats “used to be,” but also as objects that shape real-world conservationist efforts . . . an exciting addition to the burgeoning field of ecocritical readings of the twentieth-century Latin American canon . . . In clear and convincing prose, Saramago attends to the power of literary mimesis to shape public opinion and even policy in enduring ways that can be felt in the present.” —Hispanic Review
“A major contribution to Latin American literary studies . . . Fictional Environments exemplifies the best of contemporary literary analysis: it brings innovative theoretical and methodological insights to bear on enduring works of literature. Victoria Saramago makes an undeniable case for the continuing importance of literature and its capacity to literally and conceptually shape the world.” —Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
“Saramago gives a new twist to long-standing discussions about the status and function of fictional texts in environmental discourse and criticism, and whether realist and documentary modes are most appropriate for literature on environmental change. Ultimately, her innovative book engages with the more fundamental question of whether fictionality in and of itself gets in the way of ‘environmental messaging.’” —Ursula K. Heise, author of Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species
“Fictional Environments: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America makes an important and novel contribution to both Latin American literary history and to environmental humanities independently, and specifically to the incipient but expanding field of Latin American ecocriticism.” —Rachel Price, author of The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil and Spain 1868-1968 (Northwestern, 2014)
“Wide-ranging, starkly original, and sharp, Fictional Environments is full of brilliant insights on the multiple relationships between writing and ecologies. While revisiting canonical texts and bringing together critical traditions often kept apart, Saramago sheds new light on our understanding of conservation, development, and the rights of nature and fiction, in Latin America and beyond. The book never loses sight of what’s at stake as it reflects on the limits and possibilities of literary creation amid ongoing environmental devastation.” —Bruno Carvalho, author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
Descriere
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments.