Natural World in Latin American Literatures

Adrian Taylor Kane is an assistant professor of Spanish at Boise State University, where he teaches courses on Hispanic and Latin American literature. He is currently doing research on the Spanish American environmental novel.

• Table of ContentsPreface      —ADRIAN TAYLOR KANEI. NATURE, MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LATIN AMERICAN FICTIONEcological Criticism and Spanish American Fiction: An Overview      —JONATHAN TITTLERNature and the Discourse of Modernity in Spanish American Avant-Garde Fiction      —ADRIAN TAYLOR KANENature in the Twentieth-Century Latin American Novel (1900–1967) and in Cien años de soledad of García Márquez      —RAYMOND L. WILLIAMSThe Long and Winding Road of Technology from María to Cien años de soledad to Mantra: An Ecocritical Reading      —GUSTAVO LLARULLII. ENVIRONMENTAL UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIASCaribbean Utopias and Dystopias: The Emergence of the Environmental Writer and Artist      —LIZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERTParadise Lost: A Reading of Waslala from the Perspectives of Feminist Utopianism and Ecofeminism      —MARISA PEREYRABarbarian Civilization: Travel and Landscape in Don Segundo Sombra and the Contemporary Argentinean Novel      —MARTÍN CAMPSIII. ECOLOGY AND THE SUBALTERNDissecting Environmental Racism: Redirecting the “Toxic” in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood and Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus      175—DORA RAMÍREZ-DHOORENature as Articulate and Inspirited in Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos      —TRACI ROBERTS-CAMPSNational Nature and Ecologies of Abjection in Brazilian Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century      —MARK D. ANDERSONEpilogue: “Beyond the Telluric Novel”      —ADRIAN TAYLOR KANEAbout the Contributors      237Index

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