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READING AND WRITING THE LATIN AMERICAN LANDSCAPE

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes and Jerry Hoeg

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CONTENTS

Introduction 1

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To Discover, an Intransitive Verb: Christopher Columbus's First Encounter with the American Landscape Beatriz Rivera-Barnes Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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Andres Bello's "Ode to Tropical Agriculture": The Landscape of Independence Jerry Hoe£i

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"I Do Not Weep for Camaguey": Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Nineteenth-Century Cuban Landscape Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertoes): The Darwinian Landscape Jerry Hoeg

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Yuyos Are Not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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The Landscapes of Venezuela: Dona Barbara

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Jerry Hoeg

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"It didn't work, Mother. You should have let me stay here." Alegria's and Flakoll's Ashes oflzalco Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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10 Pablo Neruda's Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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11 Love in the Time of Somoza: Gioconda Belli's Ambivalent Ecofeminism Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

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12 The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar Jerry Hoeg

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Works Cited

187

Index

199