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

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.

• ContentsEcofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx WorldList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionIlka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth PettinaroliPart IBad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescateAna María Mutis2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and EcomutationsGisela Heffes3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666Diana AldretePart IIEconarratives and Ecopoetics of Slow Violence4 The Representation of Slow Violence and the Spatiality of Injustice in Y tu mamá también and Temporada de patosLaura Barbas-Rhoden5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl ButtonIda Day6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War’s Slow Violence in NicaraguaJacob PricePart IIIProtracted Degradation and the Slow Violence of Toxicity7 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 StolenAdrian Taylor Kane8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitosCarlos Gardeazábal Bravo9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Nuestra Señora de la NocheCharlotte RogersPart IVMaterialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in MulakaLauren Woolbright11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global SouthThaiane Oliveira12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Käfig’s Eco-Dance PerformancesIlka Kressner13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina)Elizabeth M. PettinaroliContributors Index