Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World

Contents



Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World



List of Figures



Acknowledgements



Introduction



Ilka Kressner, Ana Maria Mutis, and Elizabeth Pettinaroli



Part I



Bad Living: Mutations, Monsters and Phantoms



1 Monsters and Agritoxins: The Environmental Gothic in Samanta Schweblin's Distancia de rescate



Ana Maria Mutis



2 Toxic Nature in Contemporary Argentine Narratives: Contaminated Bodies and Ecomutations



Gisela Heffes



3 The Ruins of Modernity: Synecdoche of Neoliberal Mexico in Roberto Bolano's 2666



Diana Aldrete



Part II



Econarratives and Ecopoetics of Slow Violence



4 The Representation of Slow Violence and the Spatiality of Injustice in Y tu mama tambien and Temporada de patos



Laura Barbas-Rhoden



5 The Voice of Water: Spiritual Ecology, Memory, and Violence in Daughter of the Lake and The Pearl Button



Ida Day



6 From Polluted Swan Song to Happy Armadillos: The Cold War's Slow Violence in Nicaragua



Jacob Price



Part III



Protracted Degradation and the Slow Violence of Toxicity



7 Collateral Damage: Nature and the Accumulation of Capital in Hector Aguilar Camin's El resplandor de la madera and Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen



Adrian Taylor Kane



8 Violence, Slow and Explosive: Spectrality, Landscape, and Trauma in Evelio Rosero's Los



ejercitos



Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo



9 The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra Senora de la Noche



Charlotte Rogers



Part IV



Materialities, Performances, and Ecologies of Praxis



10 Slow Violence in a Digital World: Tarahumara Apocalypse and Endogenous Meaning in Mulaka



Lauren Woolbright



11 Slow Violence in the Scientific Ecosystem: Decolonial Ecocriticism on Science in the Global South



Thaiane Oliveira



12 Bodies, Transparent Matter, and Immateriality: Compagnie Kaefig's Eco-Dance Performances



Ilka Kressner



13 Llubia Negra: Fetishism of Form, Temporalities of Waste, and Slow Violence in Cartonera Publishing of the Triple Frontier (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina)



Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli



Contributors



Index

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• Literatura: história e crítica
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North American Free Trade Agreement;Young Man;Latinx world;Grand Theft Auto;Latin American world;Monsanto Company;environmental destruction;Slow Violence;ecological violence;Buen Vivir;Western Patagonia;Tv Melodrama;Pearl Button;Portuguese River;Colombian Conflict;Agrochemical Pollution;Triple Frontier;Sociospatial Dialectic;El Cobre;Spiritual Ecology;Agrochemical Poisoning;Tarahumara People;Las Estrellas;Black Rain;Scientific Ecosystem;Poetic Documentary;De Las Torres