Publisher's Synopsis
Contaminated environment, extractivism, climate change - ecological catastrophes characterize the Latin American world in many ways. Against the background of current experiences of environmental crises, this volume explores ideas and projections (imaginarios) of nature. It brings together international literary and cultural studies contributions on historical concepts of nature, representations of petroleum, ecofeminist perspectives, urban contexts, dystopian scenarios and criticism of modernity and anthropocentrism in Latin American literature. Fictional texts, chronicles and natural histories, films, new media, and indigenous cultural practices serve to determine the depths of Latin American environmentality in the Anthropocene age in all its complex facets.
