A history of ecology and environmentalism in Spanish American literature / Scott M. DeVries.

Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2013]

x, 323 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index.

Part One: Foundations, Aesthetics, Ecology. 1. Foundations of environment: Literary political ecologies of nineteenth century Southern Cone literature -- 2. Foundations from topography: Literary political ecologies of nineteenth century Andean, Amazonian, Caribbean, and Central American literature -- 3. Green modernism.

Part Two: Land, People, Ecology. 4. Swallowed: Environmentalism and the Spanish American novela de la selva -- 5. Other lands: Ecology in the Spanish American novela de la tierra -- 6. Ruin: The precedents of ecological destruction in early and canonical indigenista novels -- 7. Indigenous land: Place, then space.

Part Three: Literature, Environmentalism, Ecology. 8. Nature after the "Boom": Ecology and environmentalism in late twentieth century Spanish American fiction -- 9. Eco-satire: Green humor, contaminated imagery, and environmental language in recent Spanish American fiction -- 10. Paradise trashed: Utopian and dystopian ecological scenarios in Gioconda Belli's Waslala and Fernando Raga's Gaia Trilogy.