The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

Presents a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including JosÉ MartÍ, BartolomÉ de las Casas, RubÉn DarÍo, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.

The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought - recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.

Contributor: Grady C. Wray (Translated by), Frances M. López-Morillas (Translated by), Gioconda Belli (Contributions by), Jean de Léry (Contributions by), Juan Ignacio Molina (Contributions by), Alfonsina Storni (Contributions by), Berta Cáceres (Contributions by), G.J. Racz (Translated by), Horacio Quiroga (Contributions by), Ann Wright (Translated by), James Kimbrell (Translated by), Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Contributions by), John Bierhorst (Translated by), Ilan Stavans (Translated by), W. Nick Hill (Translated by), Timothy Coates (Translated by), Bertram T. Lee (Translated by), Simón Rodríguez (Contributions by), Mayra Montero (Contributions by), Harold V. Livermore (Translated by), Harold Augenbraum (Translated by), Octavio Paz (Contributions by), Greg Simon (Translated by), Lucia Cunningham (Translated by), Graciliano Ramos (Contributions by), Frederick H. Fornoff (Translated by), Juan Marín (Contributions by), Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (Contributions by), Edith Grossman (Translated by), Richard Cunningham (Translated by), José de Acosta (Contributions by), Julián del Casal (Contributions by), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Contributions by), Georges Louis Le Clerc (Contributions by), J.M. Cohen (Translated by), Juan Rulfo (Contributions by), José Eustasio Rivera (Contributions by), Patricia González (Translated by), Rebecca Morgan (Translated by), Steven Dolph (Translated by), Pierre Quiroule (Contributions by), José Martí (Contributions by), Esteban Montejo (Contributions by), Esthela Calderón (Contributions by), George McWhirter (Translated by), Jennifer French (Edited by), Andrew Hurley (Translated by), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Contributions by), Rigoberta Menchú (Contributions by), Leslie Bary (Translated by), Baldomero Lillo (Contributions by), César Uribe Piedrahita (Contributions by), André Joao Antonil (Contributions by), Oswald de Andrade (Contributions by), J. David Danielson (Translated by), Orlando Ricardo Menes (Translated by), Janet Whatley (Translated by), Sylvanus G. Morley (Translated by), Jaime Huenún (Contributions by), Simón Bolívar (Contributions by), Idra Novey (Translated by), Chris Whitehouse (Translated by), María Luis Bombal (Contributions by), Pope Francis (Contributions by), Domingo F. Sarmiento (Contributions by), Megan McDowell (Translated by), Chico Mendes (Contributions by), Rafael Barrett (Contributions by), Steven F. White (Translated by), Juan Carlos Galeano (Contributions by), Subcommandant Marcos (Contributions by), Elizabeth Kieffer (Translated by), José Martín Félix de Árrate y Acosta (Contributions by), Delia Goetz (Translated by), Lydia Cabrera (Contributions by), Anthony Stanton (Translated by), Andrés Bello (Contributions by), Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp (Translated by), Sandra Ferdman (Translated by), José María Arguedas (Contributions by), Johann Rudolf Rengger (Contributions by), Kathleen Ross (Translated by), Gisela Heffes (Edited by), Samanta Schweblin (Contributions by), Homero Aridjis (Contributions by), Eduardo Chirinos (Contributions by), Arthur Dixon (Translated by), Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca (Contributions by), Ralph Edward Dimmick (Translated by), Margaret Sayers Pedan (Translated by), Manuel González Prada (Contributions by), José Emilio Pacheco (Contributions by), Fernando Contreras Castro (Contributions by), Paul J. Kaveney (Translated by), Frances Horning Barraclough (Translated by), Father Jacinto Morán de Butrón (Contributions by), Charles A. Perrone (Translated by), Nina M. Scott (Translated by), Rubén Darío (Contributions by), Gaspar de Carvajal (Contributions by), Christopher Columbus (Contributions by), Clarice Lispector (Contributions by), Ramón Amaya Amador (Contributions by), Eduardo del Llano (Contributions by), Esther Allen (Translated by), José María Heredia y Heredia (Contributions by), Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (Contributions by), José María Samper (Contributions by), Jack Schmitt (Translated by), Francisco Javier de Clavijero (Contributions by), John Charles Chasteen (Translated by), Pablo Neruda (Contributions by)

Translator: Grady C. Wray, Frances M. López-Morillas, G.J. Racz, Ann Wright, James Kimbrell, John Bierhorst, Ilan Stavans, W. Nick Hill, Timothy Coates, Bertram T. Lee, Harold V. Livermore, Harold Augenbraum, Greg Simon, Lucia Cunningham, Frederick H. Fornoff, Edith Grossman, Richard Cunningham, J.M. Cohen, Patricia González, Rebecca Morgan, Steven Dolph, George McWhirter, Andrew Hurley, Leslie Bary, J. David Danielson, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Janet Whatley, Sylvanus G. Morley, Idra Novey, Chris Whitehouse, Megan McDowell, Steven F. White, Elizabeth Kieffer, Delia Goetz, Anthony Stanton, Rose Schreiber-Stainthorp, Sandra Ferdman, Kathleen Ross, Arthur Dixon, Ralph Edward Dimmick, Margaret Sayers Pedan, Paul J. Kaveney, Frances Horning Barraclough, Charles A. Perrone, Nina M. Scott, Esther Allen, Jack Schmitt, John Charles Chasteen

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