History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature by ...

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A History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American LiteratureAuthor(s): Scott M. DeVries\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Associated University Presses, United States\nImprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781611485158, 978-1611485158\nSynopsis\nA History of Ecology and Environmentalism in Spanish American Literature undertakes a comprehensive ecocritical examination of the regions literature from the foundational texts of the nineteenth century to the most recent fiction. The book begins with a consideration of the way in which Argentine Domingo Faustino Sarmientos views of nature through the lens of the categories of civilization and barbarity from Facundo [tel] are systematically challenged and revised in the rest of the century. Subsequently, this book develops the argument that a vital part of the cultural critique and aesthetic innovations of Spanish American modernismo involve an ecological challenge to deepening discourses of untamed development from Euro.