Ecofictions, ecorealities and slow violence in Latin America and the Latinx world. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Pettinaroli.
• Editors: Kressner, Ilka, 1975-; Mutis, Ana María; Pettinaroli, Elizabeth
• Contents: 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 860.998; Ecocriticism -- Latin America; Environmental literature -- Latin America -- History and criticism; Ecofiction -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- Latin America; Environmentalism in literature; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Ecology in literature; Ecology in motion pictures; Material culture -- Latin America
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000753066; 9781000752885; 9781000752977; 9781003001775
• Related ISBNs: 9780367426712
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