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