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Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.
From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by JoÃo GuimarÃes Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The SertÃo Reconstructed: JoÃo GuimarÃes Rosa's Grande sertÃo: veredas
2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier's Gran Sabana
3. Juan Rulfo's Pedro PÁramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas
4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector's A cidade sitiada
5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa's Amazon
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
