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.
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.
Ilka Kressner received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia. She is currently Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Ana María Mutis received her Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University. Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli received her Ph.D. in Spanish Literature at the University of Virginia. She is currently Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rhodes College.
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Contents Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli Part I Bad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms 1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin's Distancia de rescate Ana María Mutis 2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations Gisela Heffes 3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 Diana Aldrete Part II Econarratives and Ecopoetics of Slow Violence 4 The Representation of Slow Violence and the Spatiality of Injustice in Y tu mamá también and Temporada de patos Laura Barbas-Rhoden 5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl Button Ida Day 6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War's Slow Violence in Nicaragua Jacob Price Part III Protracted Degradation and the Slow Violence of Toxicity 7 Collateral Damage: Nature and the Accumulation of Capital in Héctor Aguilar Camín's El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen Adrian Taylor Kane 8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero's Los ejércitos Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo 9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra Señora de la Noche Charlotte Rogers Part IV Materialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis 10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in Mulaka Lauren Woolbright 11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global South Thaiane Oliveira 12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Käfig's Eco-Dance Performances Ilka Kressner 13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli Contributors Index
Contents Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli Part I Bad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms 1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin's Distancia de rescate Ana María Mutis 2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations Gisela Heffes 3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 Diana Aldrete Part II Econarratives and Ecopoetics of Slow Violence 4 The Representation of Slow Violence and the Spatiality of Injustice in Y tu mamá también and Temporada de patos Laura Barbas-Rhoden 5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl Button Ida Day 6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War's Slow Violence in Nicaragua Jacob Price Part III Protracted Degradation and the Slow Violence of Toxicity 7 Collateral Damage: Nature and the Accumulation of Capital in Héctor Aguilar Camín's El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen Adrian Taylor Kane 8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero's Los ejércitos Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo 9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra Señora de la Noche Charlotte Rogers Part IV Materialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis 10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in Mulaka Lauren Woolbright 11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global South Thaiane Oliveira 12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Käfig's Eco-Dance Performances Ilka Kressner 13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli Contributors Index
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