Fictional environments : mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin America / Victoria Saramago.

Author/Creator:

Saramago, Victoria, 1985- author.

Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) ; 37.
FlashPoints ; 37

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource.

Subjects:

Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Brazilian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Ecofiction -- History and criticism.

Contents:

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Conservation
Chapter 1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: Veredas
Chapter 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana
Part II. Development
Chapter 3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
Chapter 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada
Part III. The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction
Chapter 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 25, 2020).

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Other format:

Print version: Saramago, Victoria Fictional Environments : Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America

ISBN:

9780810142619
0810142619

Publisher Number:

40030231211

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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