Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin Ameri

Edited by Mark Anderson and Zélia M. Bora - Contributions by Juanita C. Aristizábal; Ana Avalos; Mirian Carballo; Ida Day; Sharae Deckard; Diana Dodson Lee; Simão Farias Almeida; Juan Carlos Galeano; Adrian Kane; Jeremy Larochelle; Diego Mejia-Prado; Kers

This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.

Introduction: The Dimensions of Crisis - Mark AndersonSection I: Declarations of Crisis1. Latin America in the World-Ecology: Origins and Crisis - Sharae Deckard2. Mythologies of Gold in Chocó - Juanita C. Aristizábal3. Anthropomorphism and Arboricide: The Life and Death of Trees in the American Tropics - Lesley Wylie4. The Brevity of the Planet: Environmental Loss in Recent Poetry by Contemporary Amazonian Writers - Jeremy LarochelleSection II: Representational Crises5. "The Monstrous Head" and "The Mouth of Hell": The Gothic Ecologies of the Mexican Miracle - Kerstin Oloff6. The Grounds of Crisis and the Geopolitics of Depth: Mexico City in the Anthropocene - Mark Anderson7. A Crisis in Environmental Representation: In-Depth Reporting in a Brazilian Magazine - Simão Farias Almeida8. The Languages of Ecological Crisis in Brazilian Documentary and Fiction - Zélia M. Bora9. Ecozones of the North and the South: Models of Development, Extractive Practices, and Tensions in Freedom and eRRor, un Juego con Tra(d)ición - Mirian CarballoSection III: Decolonial Ecologies10. Mining and Indigenous Cosmopolitics: The Wirikuta Case - Abigail Pérez Aguilera11. Ecological Crisis and the Re-enchantment of Nature in Jaime Huenún's Reducciones - Ida Day12. Animales de Alquiler: Challenging the Architectures of Domination - Ana Avalos and María Victoria Sánchez13. Hippopotami, Humans, and Habitat: Ecological Crisis and Posthuman Subjectivities in Mempo Giardinelli's Imposible equilibrio - Diana Dodson LeeSection IV: Ongoing Crises14. Amazonia: Looking for the Earthly Eden and Finding the Planet's Next Landfill - Diego Mejía Prado, Juan Carlos Galeano, and Herman Ruíz Abercasis15. The Nicaragua Canal and the Shifting Currents of Sandinista Environmental Policy - Adrian Kane16. Tourism, Ecology, and Changing US-Cuban Relations - Marcela RealesAfterword: The Self as Nonhuman Other - Zélia M. Bora