Research Catalog

Title

The nature of hate and the hatred of nature in Hispanic literatures / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes.

Author

Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

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Details

Description

vi, 235 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures retraces the ?nature of hatred? and the ?hatred of nature? from the earliest traditions of Western literature including Biblical texts, Medieval Spanish literature, early Spanish Renaissance texts, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iberian and Latin American literatures. The nature of hate is neither hate in its weakened form, as in disliking or loving less, nor hate in its righteous form, as in ?I hate hatred,? rather hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today. The hatred of nature is not only contempt for the natural world, but also the idea of nature hating in return, thus inspiring even more hatred of nature. While some chapters, such as the one dedicated to La Celestina, focus more on the nature of hate and the hatred of love, they do address the hatred of nature, as when Celestina conjures Pluto, who happens to be closer to nature than to Satan. Other chapters, such as the ones dedicated to the Latin American novels set in the jungle, focus more on the hatred of nature but ultimately turn to the nature of hatred by analyzing hatred and the descent into madness. In the final chapters Beatriz Rivera-Barnes simultaneously addresses the nature of hatred and the hatred of nature as well as the ecophilia/ecophobia debate in twentieth-century Latin American literatures and considers, if not an assimilation of hate, possibly the cannibalizing of hate.

Subject

• Spanish literature > History and criticism
• Spanish American literature > History and criticism
• Hate in literature
• Nature in literature
• Spanish American literature
• Spanish literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-6033

ISBN

• 9781498596480
• 1498596487

OCLC

1230901562

Author

Rivera-Barnes, Beatriz, author.

Title

The nature of hate and the hatred of nature in Hispanic literatures / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781498596497

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6033