ENGLISH

Reading and Writing the Latin American Landscape

By Jerry Hoeg , Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2009
ISBN
0230615198, 9780230615199
LCC
PQ7081 .R5345 2009
Open Library ID
OL23688376M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2361447 bytes)
Pages
203\210
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book is an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American literatures and ecology. The research spans Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time. Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, scrutinizing the ecological implications and the relationship between man and nature, or nature and culture. Some of the questions involved in this approach are: How does a text represent the physical world? What moral questions are raised relative to man’s interaction with nature? How does a text bring the reader’s awareness to a specific ecosystem? This approach will prove that environmental degradation is a tangible and measurable reality and this book will contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.

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