Literature Beyond the Human: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil

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How can Clarice Lispector’s writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental degradation and the production of knowledge? Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human. This volume includes 15 chapters by leading scholars covering two centuries of Brazilian literary production, from Gonçalves Dias to Astrid Cabral, from Euclides da Cunha to Davi Kopenawa, and others. By underscoring the vast theoretical potential of Brazilian literature and thought, from the influential Modernist thesis of “cultural cannibalism” (antropofagia) to the renewed interest in Amerindian perspectivism in culture. Post-Anthropocentric Brazil shows how the theoretical strength of Brazilian thought can contribute to contemporary debates in the anglophone realm. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil Part I Multiple Natures 1 Nature as Nation 2 “Filhos do mesmo solo”: Euclides da Cunha’s Environmental Imagination 3 Capital, Bodies, and the Environment in Alberto Rangel’s Stories 4 Cannibal Politics: From the Anthropophagic to the Anthropoemic 5 The Pluriversed Landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista: From Ecopoetry to Environmental Humanities Part II Anthropoethnocentrism and the Animal Gaze 6 A Pale Shade of Violet: Animals and Race in Machado de Assis 7 Shared Life: The Zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade 8 The Nature and/of the Animal: Environment and World in the Work of João Guimarães Rosa 9 Listening to the Jaguar and the Tapir: An Outline of a Wild Pedagogy 10 Food Ethics in the Work of Astrid Cabral Part III Present Crises and the Anthropocene 11 The Future as a Necessity: Reading Clarice Lispector in the Anthropocene 12 The Poetry of Garbage in Contemporary Brazilian Culture 13 False Gifts and Epidemic Fumes: Extractivism’s Traces and Cosmopolitical Resistances in Davi Kopenawa Yanomami’s The Falling Sky Part IV Closing Contribution 14 Thinking With Your Head on Earth List of Contributors Index