Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America - Couverture souple

Saramago, Victoria

 
9780810142596: Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0810142597 ISBN 13 : 9780810142596
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.

From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by JoÃo GuimarÃes Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

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À propos de l'auteur

VICTORIA SARAMAGO is an assistant professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies at the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
Northwestern University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0810142597
ISBN 13 
9780810142596
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0810142600 ISBN 13 :  9780810142602
Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2020
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