Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Bad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms 1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate 2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations 3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 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 5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl Button 6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War’s Slow Violence in Nicaragua 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 8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero’s Los ejércitos 9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Nuestra Señora de la Noche PART IV Materialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis 10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in Mulaka 11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global South 12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Käfig’s Ecodance Performances 13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) Contributors Index