The image of the river in Latin/o American literature : written in the water / edited by Jeanie Murphy and Elizabeth G. Rivero.
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: written in the water: the image of the river in Latin/o American literature
- Part I. Memory of water: rivers and the politics and praxis of remembrance. Along the river of memory: Los fuegos de San Telmo by José Pedro Diaz / Elizabeth G. Rivero; Floating statues and streams of consciousness: memory work in Argentina's Río de la Plata and Río Salí / Bridget V. Franco; From "obstinate memory" to explosions of recollections: rivers as cultural sites of remembrance / Julia A. Kushigian
- Part II. Rivers at the crossroads: borders, land/cityscapes and social imaginaries as contested spaces. The river as political quagmire: Mempo Giardinelli's An impossible balance / Jeanie Murphy
- Rippling borders in Latina literature / Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
- Social and geographical landscapes: the river as metaphor for female sexuality / Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez; Myth and reality: imaging the river in early colonial Spanish writing / J. Manuel Gómez; Writing the riverbanks in El libro flotante by Leonardo Valencia / Renata Égüez
- About the contributors.