The natural world in Latin American literatures: ecocritical essays on twentieth century writings

Preface / Adrian Taylor Kane

I. Nature, modernity and technology in twentieth-century Latin American fiction.

Ecological criticism and Spanish American fiction: an overview / Jonathan Tittler.

Nature and the discourse of modernity in Spanish American avant-garde fiction / Adrian Taylor Kane. Nature in the twentieth-century Latin American novel (1900-1967) and in Cien años de soledad of Garciá Maŕquez. / Raymond L. Williams. The long and winding road of technology from María to Cien años de soledad to Mantra: an ecocritical reading / Gustavo Llarull

II. Environmental utopias and dystopias.

Caribbean utopias and dystopias: the emergence of the environmental writer and artist / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.

Paradise lost: a reading of Waslala from the perspectives of feminist utopianism and ecofeminism / Marisa Pereyra.

Barbarian civilization: travel and landscape in Don Segundo Sombra and the contemporary Argentinean novel / Martin Camps

III. Ecology and the subaltern.

Dissecting environmental racism: redirecting the "toxic" in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood and Helena María Viramontes's Under the feet of Jesus / Dora Ramírez-Dhoore.

Nature as articulate and inspirited: Oficio de tinieblas by Rosario Castellanos / Traci Roberts-Camps.

National nature and ecologies of abjection in Brazilian literature at the turn of the twentieth century /

Mark D. Anderson

Epilogue: "beyond the telluric novel" / Adrian Taylor Kane.