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245 00 a| Ecofictions, ecorealities and slow violence in Latin America and the Latinx worldh| [electronic resource] /c| edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana Mar©Ưa Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli.;

260 a| New York :b| Routledge,c| 2020.;

263 a| 2002;

300 a| pages cm;

490 0 a| Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Part 1. Bad living: mutations, monsters and phantoms -- Monsters and agritoxins: the environmental gothic in Samanta Schweblin's Distancia de rescate / Ana Mar©Ưa Mutis -- Toxic nature in contemporary Argentine narratives: contaminated bodies and ecomutations / Gisela Heffes -- The ruins of modernity: synecdoche of neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bola©ło's 2666 / Diana Aldrete -- Part 2. Econarratives and ecopolitics of slow violence -- The representation of slow violence and the spaiality of injustice in Y tu mam©Ł tambi©♭n and Temporada de patos / Laura Barbas-Rhoden -- The voice of water: spiritual ecology, memory, and violence in Daughter of the lake and The pearl button / Ida Day -- From polluted swan song to happy armadillos: the Cold War's slow violence in Nicaragua / Jacob Price -- Part 3. Protracted degradation and the slow violence of toxicity -- Collateral damage: nature and the accumulation of capital in H©♭ctor Aguilar Cam©Ưn's El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the stolen / Adrian Tayor Kane -- Violence, slow and explosive: spectrality, landscape, and trauma in Evelio Rosero's Los ej©♭rcitos Carlos / Gardeaz©Łbal Bravo -- The environmentalism of poor women of color in Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra se©łora de la noche / Charlotte Rogers -- Part 4. Materialities, performances, and ecologies of praxis -- Slow violence in a digital world: tarahumara apocalypse and endogenous meaning in Mulaka / Lauren Woolbright -- Slow violence in the scientific ecosystem: decolonial ecocriticism on science in the global south / Thaine Oliveira -- Bodies, Transparent matter and immateriality: Compagnie K©Þfig's eco-dance performances / Ilka Kressner -- Llubia negra: fetishism of form, temporalities of waste, and slow violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) / Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon's concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability"--c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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650 0 a| Ecology in literature.=| ^A109190;

650 0 a| Environmentalism in mass media.=| ^A1057168;

650 0 a| Environmentalism in literature.=| ^A1065358;

650 0 a| Human ecology in literature.=| ^A254216;

650 0 a| Postcolonialism in literature.=| ^A515695;

650 0 a| Colonies in literature.=| ^A92305;

650 0 a| Ecocriticism.=| ^A518233;

650 0 a| Imperialismx| Environmental aspects.=| ^A15280;

650 0 a| Globalizationx| Environmental aspects.=| ^A517331;

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700 1 a| Kressner, Ilka,d| 1975-?| UNAUTHORIZED;

700 1 a| Pettinaroli, Elizabeth.?| UNAUTHORIZED;

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Ecofictions, ecorealities and slow violence in Latin America and the Latinx world / edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana Mar©Ưa Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli.

Other author	Kressner, Ilka, 1975-
Other author	Mutis, Ana Mar©Ưa.
Other author	Pettinaroli, Elizabeth.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Routledge, 2020.
Description	pages cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Latin American literature--History and criticism. Ecology in literature. Environmentalism in mass media. Environmentalism in literature. Human ecology in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. Colonies in literature. Ecocriticism. Imperialism--Environmental aspects. Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Series	Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment
Contents	Part 1. Bad living: mutations, monsters and phantoms -- Monsters and agritoxins: the environmental gothic in Samanta Schweblin's Distancia de rescate / Ana Mar©Ưa Mutis -- Toxic nature in contemporary Argentine narratives: contaminated bodies and ecomutations / Gisela Heffes -- The ruins of modernity: synecdoche of neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bola©ło's 2666 / Diana Aldrete -- Part 2. Econarratives and ecopolitics of slow violence -- The representation of slow violence and the spaiality of injustice in Y tu mam©Ł tambi©♭n and Temporada de patos / Laura Barbas-Rhoden -- The voice of water: spiritual ecology, memory, and violence in Daughter of the lake and The pearl button / Ida Day -- From polluted swan song to happy armadillos: the Cold War's slow violence in Nicaragua / Jacob Price -- Part 3. Protracted degradation and the slow violence of toxicity -- Collateral damage: nature and the accumulation of capital in H©♭ctor Aguilar Cam©Ưn's El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the stolen / Adrian Tayor Kane -- Violence, slow and explosive: spectrality, landscape, and trauma in Evelio Rosero's Los ej©♭rcitos Carlos / Gardeaz©Łbal Bravo -- The environmentalism of poor women of color in Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra se©łora de la noche / Charlotte Rogers -- Part 4. Materialities, performances, and ecologies of praxis -- Slow violence in a digital world: tarahumara apocalypse and endogenous meaning in Mulaka / Lauren Woolbright -- Slow violence in the scientific ecosystem: decolonial ecocriticism on science in the global south / Thaine Oliveira -- Bodies, Transparent matter and immateriality: Compagnie K©Þfig's eco-dance performances / Ilka Kressner -- Llubia negra: fetishism of form, temporalities of waste, and slow violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) / Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli.
Abstract	"Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies of Latin American and Latinx writing, film, visual, and performing arts to offer new perspectives on ecological violence. Building on Rob Nixon's concept of "slow violence," the contributions to the volume explore processes of environmental destruction that are not immediately visible yet expand in time and space and transcend the limits of our experience. Authors consider these forms of destruction in relation to new material contexts of artistic creation, practices of activism, and cultural production in Latin American and Latinx worlds. Their critical contributions investigate how writers, cultural activists, filmmakers, and visual and performance artists across the region conceptualize, visualize, and document this invisible but far-reaching realm of violence that so tenaciously resists representation. The volume highlights the dense web of material relations in which all is enmeshed, and calls attention to a notion of agency that transcends the anthropocentric, engaging a cognition envisioned as embodied, collective, and relational. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence measures the breadth of creative imaginings and critical strategies from Latin America and Latinx contexts to enrich contemporary ecocritical studies in an era of heightened environmental vulnerability"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019055684
ISBN	9780367426712 (hardcover)
ISBN	(ebook)
ISBN	(adobe pdf)
ISBN	(mobi)
ISBN	(epub)

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