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Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America

Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America

Horowitz, Gabriel

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Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory

Literary CriticismGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 1684485002
ISBN13: 9781684485000
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: Oct 13 2023
Pages: 176
Language: English

In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Luis Borges, Augusto Roa Bastos, Cesar Aira, and others, he traces historical constructions of nature in regional intellectual traditions and texts as they inform political culture on the broader global stage. By investigating national literary discourses from Cuba, Argentina, and Paraguay, he identifies a common narrative thread that imagines the utopian wilderness of the New World as a symbolic site of independence from Spain. In these texts, Horowitz argues, an expressed desire to return to the nation's foundational nature contributed to a movement away from political and social engagement and toward a biopolitical state, in which nature, traditionally seen as pre-political, conversely becomes its center.

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