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The Plantation's Gardens in Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature: A Politics of (Up)Rooting

The Plantation's Gardens in Nineteenth Century Latin American Literature: A Politics of (Up)Rooting

Vakoch, Douglas A.
Peach, Niall

Hardcover

Series: Critical Plant Studies

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $120.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 13, 2027

ISBN13: 9798216438236
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: May 13 2027
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With an interdisciplinary approach to the agri-biopolitical regulation of life that centers on the early to mid-nineteenth-century rise of monoculture and the plantation model, this book turns to key Romantic literature imagined as agricultural novels to propose a new environmental aesthetic built around the garden and its plant relations under monoculture in Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia. Organized as a journey around the different garden sites tied to the plantation to trace the failure and attempts at ensuring the plantation's success, the author engages with literary gardens and their material counterparts. From a diverse archive: archaeology and literary studies to Black Geographies, Plant Studies, and burgeoning theories of the garden, it looks to the conuco, creole garden, xochimanque, and the majestic garden as they emerge out of and dialogue with the plantation's monocultural narrative. In doing so, this work addresses (up)rooting: emplacement and belonging, for Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and Upper-Class Creole peoples.

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