Beyond Human : : Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism / / ed. by Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2023
• HerausgeberIn: Leone, Maryanne L. ,; Lino, Shanna ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic ; 83
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.) :; 15 colour illustrations, 1 b&w illustration, 1 colour map

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human–human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture -- PART ONE Tracing Environmental Culture in Spain -- Chapter One. Lope’s Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Gran Canaria: An Ecolonialist Reading -- Chapter Two. Birdsong and the Earth’s Polyrhythm: The Life of a Caged Blue Rock Thrush in Early Modern Spain -- Chapter Three. Water Grabbing and the Dammed Esla: The Enchanted Waters of Jorge de Montemayor and the Riaño Reservoir -- Chapter Four. Of Witches and Land Reform in Enlightenment Spain -- Chapter Five. Plant, Animal, and Human Consciousness in Julio Llamazares’s Luna de lobos -- PART TWO Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene -- Chapter Six. Leonardo Torres Quevedo’s Automata and the Consolidation of Technological Regenerationism -- Chapter Seven. The Spectre of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas y barro -- Chapter Eight. Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity -- Chapter Nine. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero’s Times of Hatred -- Chapter Ten. The Salvage Poetics of Ben Clark’s Basura -- PART THREE Disruptive Agentic Paradigms -- Chapter Eleven. Ecofeminist Materialism and Entanglements of Care in Sara Mesa’s Un incendio invisible -- Chapter Twelve. Trans-Corporeal Matter Narratives in Hierro -- Chapter Thirteen ¡El toro no entiende de toreo! Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez’s Anti-Taurine Essays, and the Emergence of Post-Humanist Views of Animals in Spain -- Chapter Fourteen. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin -- PART FOUR Medium as Activism Igniter -- Chapter Fifteen. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García’s Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela -- Chapter Sixteen. La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain’s Greatest Ecological Disaster -- Chapter Seventeen. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the TwentyFirst-Century Spanish Comic -- Contributors -- Index