Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvCristina E. Pardo Porto,Oscar A. Pérez

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Challenging anthropocentric perspectives by highlighting cultural representations of plants and animals across Latin American historyThe first book to integrate both critical plant studies and critical animal studies within the context of Latin American culture, this collection explores the relationships between plants, animals, and humans across various countries and historical periods and through various kinds of media. Acknowledging nonhuman species as coproducers of culture, this volume offers a deeper understanding of the region’s natural environment and humanity’s place in it.Contributors analyze a wide range of cultural production, including recent science films on monarch butterfly migration, nineteenth-century photographs of Panama, the eighteenth-century diary of a nun in New Granada, 1920s Brazilian landscape paintings, contemporary Zapotec poetry, and twentieth-century vegetarian cookbooks from Uruguay and Mexico. By focusing on plants and animals, these essays uncover the entanglements of nonhuman lives with issues such as race, gender, labor, and coloniality, while highlighting other-than-human ways of living, knowing, and communicating.Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production promotes a deeper understanding of cultural forms in Latin America and breaks down disciplinary divides—both between critical animal studies and critical plant studies and among fields such as literary studies, film studies, and art history. Ultimately, this collection challenges anthropocentric perspectives as it offers new pathways to think about and with plants and animals.Contributors: Patricia Isabel Lontro Marder Vieira Jorge Quintana Navarrete Beatriz Rivera-Barnes Brian T. Chandler Oscar A. Pérez Niall A. Peach Pilar Espitia Jonathan Mulki Cristina E. Pardo Porto Thomaz Amancio Micah McKay Ana Carolina Carmona-Ribeiro Vanesa Miseres Víctor Sierra Matute Kate Ostrom Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez Dr. Mauricio Espinoza

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-16
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor334
FörlagUniversity Press of Florida
ISBN9781683405689

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List of Figures viiAcknowledgments ixPlants, Animals, and Cultural Criticism from Latin AmericaCristina E. Pardo Porto and Oscar A. Pérez 1PART I Beyond Anthropocentrism1 Anthropomorphism and Vegetal Life in Sara Gallardo’s “Un césped”Micah McKay 272 “They Have Wrapped the Fibers of My Plants around Their Naked Feet”: Plants and Animals of the US-Mexico BorderscapeKate Ostrom 393 Tropical Scenery: Plant and Animal Resistance in Early Photographs of Panama’s RainforestCristina E. Pardo Porto 564 Brazil, the Country of Palm Trees: A Study of the Arecaceae in the Work of Tarsila do AmaralAna Carolina Carmona-Ribeiro 77PART IILanguage and Knowledge5 Cattle Intimacies: Animal Voice and Literary Speech in João GuimarãesRosa and Marília Floôr Kosby Thomaz Amancio 956 Languages of Life: Biosemiotics and Living Systems of Plants and Animals in Contemporary Mexican PoetryBrian T. Chandler 1117 Bugs, Plants, and Laboratories: A Grammar for/of More-Than-Human Entanglements in Alexis Gambis’s Science New Wave FilmsOscar A. Pérez 1278 In the Beginning Was the Fable! Textually Transmitted Beasts and Commodities in Amores Perros and Calila e DimnaBeatriz Rivera-Barnes 144PART III Coloniality and Multispecies Resistance9 “He wanted me to be his little dog”: Imagery of Nature, Gender, and Colonial Powers in Jerónima Nava y Saavedra’s Spiritual AutobiographyPilar Espitia 16310 Guamán Poma’s Ecocentric Ethos in Primer Nueva Crónica y Buen GobiernoVíctor Sierra Matute 17911 Migration and Stasis in Xilase qui rié di’ sicasi rié nisa guiigu’ /La nostalgia no se marcha como el agua de los ríos by Irma PinedaEmily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez 19712 El árbol del chicle: Plant Life and Racialization in Luis Rosado Vega’s Poema de la selva trágica (1938) and Yulene Olaizola’s Selva trágica (2021)Jorge Quintana Navarrete 212PART IV The Politics of Plant and Animal Life13 Of Paddocks, Plants, and Cattle: Security and Burden in the Caribbean Age of SugarNiall A. Peach 23114 “There’s Nothing Better than Giving Life”: Freeing the “Plant” from the “Plantation” in Recent Latin American Narratives about CoffeeMauricio Espinoza 24715 Captivity and Pride in the Yerba Mate World: A Bond for Survival under Persistent ColonialityJonathan Mulki 26216 Return to Nature: The Politics of Animals and Plants in Two Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Latin American Vegetarian CookbooksVanesa Miseres 279Afterword: A Latin American Mélange of ExistencePatrícia Vieira 298List of Contributors 305Index 309