Jennifer French is a professor of Spanish at Williams College. She is the author of Nature, Neocolonialism, and the Spanish-American Regional Writers.Gisela Heffes is an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture. She has published two monographs and four novels in Spanish.

• AcknowledgmentGeneral Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental CultureChapter 1: New World Natures1. Christopher Columbus: 'Letter to Various Persons' (1493)2. Gonzalo FernÁndez de Oviedo y ValdÉs: from General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-1557)3. Fray BartolomÉ de las Casas: 'Plague of Ants' (1875)4. Gaspar de Carvajal: from The Discovery of the Amazon (c. 1542)5. Jean de LÉry: 'Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil' (1578)6. JosÉ de Acosta: 'Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures that will be Dealt with in this History' (1590)7. Anonymous: from Popol vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient QuichÉ Maya (c. 1554-1558/1701)8. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca: from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609)Chapter 2: Creole Landscapes1. Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: from The Spiritual Conquest (1639)2. The Catholic Church: from The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima (1897)3. AndrÉ Joao Antonil: from Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711)4. Father Jacinto MorÁn de ButrÓn: 'She Flees to the Desert' (1724)5. Georges Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: from Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-1788)6. JosÉ MartÍn FÉlix de Árrate y Acosta: 'On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of this City' (1761)7. Francisco Javier de Clavijero: from Geographical Description of Mexico (1780)8. Juan Ignacio Molina: from The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782)Chapter 3: Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States1. SimÓn BolÍvar: 'My Delirium on Chimborazo' (1822)2. AndrÉs Bello: 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture' (1826)3. SimÓn RodrÍguez: 'Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya' (1830)4. Johann Rudolf Rengger: From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835)5. JosÉ MarÍa Heredia y Heredia: 'In a Storm' (c. 1835)6. Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda: From Sab (1841)7. Domingo F. Sarmiento: 'Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic' (1845)8. JosÉ MarÍa Samper: 'The Marvelous Exuberance of Life and the Forces of Nature…' (1861)Chapter 4: Regionalism and the Export Boom1. JosÉ MartÍ: 'Our America' (1891)2. Baldomero Lillo: 'The Invalids,' from Sub-terra (1904)3. Horacio Quiroga: 'The Log-Fishermen' (1913)4. JosÉ Eustasio Rivera: from The Vortex (1924)5. CÉsar Uribe Piedrahita: 'Mun Hospital,' from Oil Stain (1935)6. Juan MarÍn: from 53rd Parallel South (1936)7. Graciliano Ramos: 'The Birds,' from Barren Lives (1938)8. RamÓn Amaya Amador: 'Green Destiny,' from Green Prison (1950)Chapter 5: Modern Metropoles1. JuliÁn del Casal: 'In the Country' (1893)2. Rafael Barrett: 'Tree Haters' (1907)3. Manuel GonzÁlez Prada: 'Le Tour du PropriÉtaire' (1911)4. Pierre Quiroule: from The American Anarchist City (1914)5. Oswald de Andrade: 'Cannibalist Manifesto' (1928)6. RubÉn DarÍo: 'Reincarnations' (1890); 'Philosophy' (1905); 'Song of the Pines' (1907), and 'Revelation' (1907)7. Alfonsina Storni: 'You Wish I Were Fair' (1918); 'Sadness' (1920); 'Slum Rosebushes' (1920), and 'Buenos Aires DanzÓn' (1938)8. MarÍa Luis Bombal: 'The Tree' (1939)Chapter 6: Developmentalism1. Pablo Neruda: 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' (1950)2. Juan Rulfo: 'Luvina' (1953)3. Lydia Cabrera: 'The Ceiba,' from The Woods (1954)4. JosÉ MarÍa Arguedas: 'Bridge Over the World,' from Deep Waters (1958)5. Esteban Montejo: 'Life in the Woods,' from Biography of a Runaway Slave (1966)6. Clarice Lispector: from The Passion According to G.H. (1964)7. Carlos Drummond de Andrade: 'Farewell to the Seven Falls' (1982)8. Rigoberta MenchÚ: from I, Rigoberta MenchÚ: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985)Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Globalization1. Chico Mendes: 'The Landowners Strike Back,' from Fight for the forest (1989)2. Octavio Paz: from 'In Search of the Present,' (Nobel Lecture) (1990)3. Juan Carlos Galeano: 'Curupira;' 'Dark Shamans;' 'Cantagalo,' and 'Lupuna' (1992)4. Fernando Contreras Castro: from Única looking out to sea (1994)5. Gioconda Belli: from Waslala (1996)6. Subcommandant Marcos: A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999)7. Eduardo del Llano: 'Greenpeace' (2000)8. Esthela CalderÓn: 'The Woman I Could Have Been;' 'Seed of I Don’t Know What,' and 'Talking with My Worms' (2012)Chapter 8: End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction1. Homero Aridjis: 'Uncreation' (1994); 'The Last Night of the World' (1994); 'The Hunt for the Red Jaguar' (2005), and 'Images of Butterflies' (2014)2. JosÉ Emilio Pacheco: 'Equation to the First Degree, with Unknown Quantity;' 'Whales;' 'Augury,' and 'Baboon Babble' (1993)3. Mayra Montero: 'Indian Hut,' from In the Palm of Darkness (1997)4. Jaime HuenÚn: 'Ceremony of Love' and 'Ceremony of Death' (1998)5. Samanta Schweblin: from Fever Dream (2014)6. Berta CÁceres: Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015)7. Pope Francis: from Laudato Si’ (2015)8. Eduardo Chirinos: 'The K/T Boundary Chronicle;' 'The Toba Chronicle,' and 'The Chernobyl Chronicle' (2013)NotesBibliographyIndex

This book brings together for the first time in English a cornucopia of vital writings about the environmental politics and art of Latin America. French and Heffes have compiled a volume of remarkable intellectual, geographic, and historical reach. The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader will prove transformative in many, many classrooms. It will also become an indispensable text for environmental humanities scholars." - Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Jennifer French is a professor of Spanish at Williams College. She is the author of Nature, Neocolonialism, and the Spanish-American Regional Writers.Gisela Heffes is an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture. She has published two monographs and four novels in Spanish.

• AcknowledgmentGeneral Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental CultureChapter 1: New World Natures1. Christopher Columbus: 'Letter to Various Persons' (1493)2. Gonzalo FernÁndez de Oviedo y ValdÉs: from General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-1557)3. Fray BartolomÉ de las Casas: 'Plague of Ants' (1875)4. Gaspar de Carvajal: from The Discovery of the Amazon (c. 1542)5. Jean de LÉry: 'Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil' (1578)6. JosÉ de Acosta: 'Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures that will be Dealt with in this History' (1590)7. Anonymous: from Popol vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient QuichÉ Maya (c. 1554-1558/1701)8. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca: from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609)Chapter 2: Creole Landscapes1. Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: from The Spiritual Conquest (1639)2. The Catholic Church: from The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima (1897)3. AndrÉ Joao Antonil: from Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711)4. Father Jacinto MorÁn de ButrÓn: 'She Flees to the Desert' (1724)5. Georges Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: from Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-1788)6. JosÉ MartÍn FÉlix de Árrate y Acosta: 'On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of this City' (1761)7. Francisco Javier de Clavijero: from Geographical Description of Mexico (1780)8. Juan Ignacio Molina: from The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782)Chapter 3: Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States1. SimÓn BolÍvar: 'My Delirium on Chimborazo' (1822)2. AndrÉs Bello: 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture' (1826)3. SimÓn RodrÍguez: 'Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya' (1830)4. Johann Rudolf Rengger: From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835)5. JosÉ MarÍa Heredia y Heredia: 'In a Storm' (c. 1835)6. Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda: From Sab (1841)7. Domingo F. Sarmiento: 'Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic' (1845)8. JosÉ MarÍa Samper: 'The Marvelous Exuberance of Life and the Forces of Nature…' (1861)Chapter 4: Regionalism and the Export Boom1. JosÉ MartÍ: 'Our America' (1891)2. Baldomero Lillo: 'The Invalids,' from Sub-terra (1904)3. Horacio Quiroga: 'The Log-Fishermen' (1913)4. JosÉ Eustasio Rivera: from The Vortex (1924)5. CÉsar Uribe Piedrahita: 'Mun Hospital,' from Oil Stain (1935)6. Juan MarÍn: from 53rd Parallel South (1936)7. Graciliano Ramos: 'The Birds,' from Barren Lives (1938)8. RamÓn Amaya Amador: 'Green Destiny,' from Green Prison (1950)Chapter 5: Modern Metropoles1. JuliÁn del Casal: 'In the Country' (1893)2. Rafael Barrett: 'Tree Haters' (1907)3. Manuel GonzÁlez Prada: 'Le Tour du PropriÉtaire' (1911)4. Pierre Quiroule: from The American Anarchist City (1914)5. Oswald de Andrade: 'Cannibalist Manifesto' (1928)6. RubÉn DarÍo: 'Reincarnations' (1890); 'Philosophy' (1905); 'Song of the Pines' (1907), and 'Revelation' (1907)7. Alfonsina Storni: 'You Wish I Were Fair' (1918); 'Sadness' (1920); 'Slum Rosebushes' (1920), and 'Buenos Aires DanzÓn' (1938)8. MarÍa Luis Bombal: 'The Tree' (1939)Chapter 6: Developmentalism1. Pablo Neruda: 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' (1950)2. Juan Rulfo: 'Luvina' (1953)3. Lydia Cabrera: 'The Ceiba,' from The Woods (1954)4. JosÉ MarÍa Arguedas: 'Bridge Over the World,' from Deep Waters (1958)5. Esteban Montejo: 'Life in the Woods,' from Biography of a Runaway Slave (1966)6. Clarice Lispector: from The Passion According to G.H. (1964)7. Carlos Drummond de Andrade: 'Farewell to the Seven Falls' (1982)8. Rigoberta MenchÚ: from I, Rigoberta MenchÚ: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985)Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Globalization1. Chico Mendes: 'The Landowners Strike Back,' from Fight for the forest (1989)2. Octavio Paz: from 'In Search of the Present,' (Nobel Lecture) (1990)3. Juan Carlos Galeano: 'Curupira;' 'Dark Shamans;' 'Cantagalo,' and 'Lupuna' (1992)4. Fernando Contreras Castro: from Única looking out to sea (1994)5. Gioconda Belli: from Waslala (1996)6. Subcommandant Marcos: A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999)7. Eduardo del Llano: 'Greenpeace' (2000)8. Esthela CalderÓn: 'The Woman I Could Have Been;' 'Seed of I Don’t Know What,' and 'Talking with My Worms' (2012)Chapter 8: End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction1. Homero Aridjis: 'Uncreation' (1994); 'The Last Night of the World' (1994); 'The Hunt for the Red Jaguar' (2005), and 'Images of Butterflies' (2014)2. JosÉ Emilio Pacheco: 'Equation to the First Degree, with Unknown Quantity;' 'Whales;' 'Augury,' and 'Baboon Babble' (1993)3. Mayra Montero: 'Indian Hut,' from In the Palm of Darkness (1997)4. Jaime HuenÚn: 'Ceremony of Love' and 'Ceremony of Death' (1998)5. Samanta Schweblin: from Fever Dream (2014)6. Berta CÁceres: Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015)7. Pope Francis: from Laudato Si’ (2015)8. Eduardo Chirinos: 'The K/T Boundary Chronicle;' 'The Toba Chronicle,' and 'The Chernobyl Chronicle' (2013)NotesBibliographyIndex

This book brings together for the first time in English a cornucopia of vital writings about the environmental politics and art of Latin America. French and Heffes have compiled a volume of remarkable intellectual, geographic, and historical reach. The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader will prove transformative in many, many classrooms. It will also become an indispensable text for environmental humanities scholars." - Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Jennifer French is a professor of Spanish at Williams College. She is the author of Nature, Neocolonialism, and the Spanish-American Regional Writers.Gisela Heffes is an associate professor of Latin American literature and culture. She has published two monographs and four novels in Spanish.

• AcknowledgmentGeneral Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental CultureChapter 1: New World Natures1. Christopher Columbus: 'Letter to Various Persons' (1493)2. Gonzalo FernÁndez de Oviedo y ValdÉs: from General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-1557)3. Fray BartolomÉ de las Casas: 'Plague of Ants' (1875)4. Gaspar de Carvajal: from The Discovery of the Amazon (c. 1542)5. Jean de LÉry: 'Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil' (1578)6. JosÉ de Acosta: 'Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures that will be Dealt with in this History' (1590)7. Anonymous: from Popol vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient QuichÉ Maya (c. 1554-1558/1701)8. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca: from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609)Chapter 2: Creole Landscapes1. Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: from The Spiritual Conquest (1639)2. The Catholic Church: from The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima (1897)3. AndrÉ Joao Antonil: from Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711)4. Father Jacinto MorÁn de ButrÓn: 'She Flees to the Desert' (1724)5. Georges Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: from Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-1788)6. JosÉ MartÍn FÉlix de Árrate y Acosta: 'On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of this City' (1761)7. Francisco Javier de Clavijero: from Geographical Description of Mexico (1780)8. Juan Ignacio Molina: from The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782)Chapter 3: Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States1. SimÓn BolÍvar: 'My Delirium on Chimborazo' (1822)2. AndrÉs Bello: 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture' (1826)3. SimÓn RodrÍguez: 'Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya' (1830)4. Johann Rudolf Rengger: From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835)5. JosÉ MarÍa Heredia y Heredia: 'In a Storm' (c. 1835)6. Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda: From Sab (1841)7. Domingo F. Sarmiento: 'Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic' (1845)8. JosÉ MarÍa Samper: 'The Marvelous Exuberance of Life and the Forces of Nature…' (1861)Chapter 4: Regionalism and the Export Boom1. JosÉ MartÍ: 'Our America' (1891)2. Baldomero Lillo: 'The Invalids,' from Sub-terra (1904)3. Horacio Quiroga: 'The Log-Fishermen' (1913)4. JosÉ Eustasio Rivera: from The Vortex (1924)5. CÉsar Uribe Piedrahita: 'Mun Hospital,' from Oil Stain (1935)6. Juan MarÍn: from 53rd Parallel South (1936)7. Graciliano Ramos: 'The Birds,' from Barren Lives (1938)8. RamÓn Amaya Amador: 'Green Destiny,' from Green Prison (1950)Chapter 5: Modern Metropoles1. JuliÁn del Casal: 'In the Country' (1893)2. Rafael Barrett: 'Tree Haters' (1907)3. Manuel GonzÁlez Prada: 'Le Tour du PropriÉtaire' (1911)4. Pierre Quiroule: from The American Anarchist City (1914)5. Oswald de Andrade: 'Cannibalist Manifesto' (1928)6. RubÉn DarÍo: 'Reincarnations' (1890); 'Philosophy' (1905); 'Song of the Pines' (1907), and 'Revelation' (1907)7. Alfonsina Storni: 'You Wish I Were Fair' (1918); 'Sadness' (1920); 'Slum Rosebushes' (1920), and 'Buenos Aires DanzÓn' (1938)8. MarÍa Luis Bombal: 'The Tree' (1939)Chapter 6: Developmentalism1. Pablo Neruda: 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu' (1950)2. Juan Rulfo: 'Luvina' (1953)3. Lydia Cabrera: 'The Ceiba,' from The Woods (1954)4. JosÉ MarÍa Arguedas: 'Bridge Over the World,' from Deep Waters (1958)5. Esteban Montejo: 'Life in the Woods,' from Biography of a Runaway Slave (1966)6. Clarice Lispector: from The Passion According to G.H. (1964)7. Carlos Drummond de Andrade: 'Farewell to the Seven Falls' (1982)8. Rigoberta MenchÚ: from I, Rigoberta MenchÚ: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985)Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Globalization1. Chico Mendes: 'The Landowners Strike Back,' from Fight for the forest (1989)2. Octavio Paz: from 'In Search of the Present,' (Nobel Lecture) (1990)3. Juan Carlos Galeano: 'Curupira;' 'Dark Shamans;' 'Cantagalo,' and 'Lupuna' (1992)4. Fernando Contreras Castro: from Única looking out to sea (1994)5. Gioconda Belli: from Waslala (1996)6. Subcommandant Marcos: A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999)7. Eduardo del Llano: 'Greenpeace' (2000)8. Esthela CalderÓn: 'The Woman I Could Have Been;' 'Seed of I Don’t Know What,' and 'Talking with My Worms' (2012)Chapter 8: End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction1. Homero Aridjis: 'Uncreation' (1994); 'The Last Night of the World' (1994); 'The Hunt for the Red Jaguar' (2005), and 'Images of Butterflies' (2014)2. JosÉ Emilio Pacheco: 'Equation to the First Degree, with Unknown Quantity;' 'Whales;' 'Augury,' and 'Baboon Babble' (1993)3. Mayra Montero: 'Indian Hut,' from In the Palm of Darkness (1997)4. Jaime HuenÚn: 'Ceremony of Love' and 'Ceremony of Death' (1998)5. Samanta Schweblin: from Fever Dream (2014)6. Berta CÁceres: Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015)7. Pope Francis: from Laudato Si’ (2015)8. Eduardo Chirinos: 'The K/T Boundary Chronicle;' 'The Toba Chronicle,' and 'The Chernobyl Chronicle' (2013)NotesBibliographyIndex

This book brings together for the first time in English a cornucopia of vital writings about the environmental politics and art of Latin America. French and Heffes have compiled a volume of remarkable intellectual, geographic, and historical reach. The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader will prove transformative in many, many classrooms. It will also become an indispensable text for environmental humanities scholars." - Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor