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Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature

Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature

Aristizábal, Juanita C.
Anderson, Mark
Bora, Zélia M.

Hardcover

Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1498530958
ISBN13: 9781498530958
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 4 2016
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term Anthropocene to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the dynamics and interplay between local cultures and the expansion of global capitalism in Latin America, emphasizing the role of art in bearing witness to and generating awareness of environmental and social crises, but also its possibilities for formulating solutions. They take particular care to draw out the ways in which local environmental crises in Latin American nations are witnessed and imagined as part of a global system, focusing on the problems of time, scale, and complexity as key terms in conceiving the dimensions of crisis. At the same time, they question the notion of the Anthropocene as a species-wide human historical project, making visible the coloniality of natural resource extraction in Latin America and its dire effects for local people, cultures, and environments.

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