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Reading and writing the Latin American landscape
- Title
- Reading and writing the Latin American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
- Author
- Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-
- Description
- vi, 203 p.; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- To discover, an intransitive verb: Christopher Columbus's first encounter with the American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Is there such a thing as too much water? the hurricanes that foundered and the swamps that hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Picaresque nature: conquistadors, parrots, parasites, mimics / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Andrés Bello's "Ode to tropical agriculture": the landscape of independence / Jerry Hoeg -- "I do not weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's nineteenth-century Cuban landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Rebellion in the backlands (Os Sertões) : the Darwinian landscape / Jerry Hoeg -- Yuyos are not weeds : an ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara / Jerry Hoeg -- "It didn't work, mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Pablo Neruda's Latin American landscape: nations, economy, nature / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- Love in the time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's ambivalent ecofeminism / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- The landscape of the consumer society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar / Jerry Hoeg.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-709
- ISBN
- 9780230615199
- 0230615198
- LCCN
- 2009034601
- OCLC
- YBP 2009034601
- Author
- Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz.
- Title
- Reading and writing the Latin American landscape / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-709