Nature Fantasies Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America.

In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature, postcoloniality, and national identity. In the work of José Martí, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jorge Lui...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Horowitz, Gabriel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2023.
Series:	Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series.
Subjects:	1800-1999 Biopolitics in literature. Decolonization in literature. National characteristics, Latin American, in literature. Nature in literature. Spanish American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Biopolitics in literature Decolonization in literature National characteristics, Latin American, in literature Nature in literature Spanish American literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Decolonization and Nature
1. The Natural History of Latin American Independence
2. Renewing Niagara Falls and Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition
Part II. Toward the Biopolitical State
3. The Fantasy of the Creole as White Indian
4. The End of History and the Return to Nature
5. The Garden, the Camp, and the Biopolitical State
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Nature Fantasies Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America.

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