Beyond Human : Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism (Toronto Iberic)

Leone, Maryanne L. (EDT)/ Lino, Shanna (EDT)

University of Toronto Press（2023/09発売）

University of Toronto Press（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 488 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781487548322
• DDC分類 304.2

Full Description

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene.

Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human-human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series.

The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today's ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Contents

List of Map and Illustrations

Foreword
Luis I. Prádanos 

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture
Maryanne L. Leone and Shanna Lino

Part One: Tracing Environmental Culture in Spain

1. Lope's Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Gran Canaria: An Ecolonialist Reading
Bonnie L. Gasior 

2. Birdsong and the Earth's Polyrhythm: The Life of a Caged Blue Rock Thrush in Early Modern Spain
John Beusterien

3. Water Grabbing and the Dammed Esla: The Enchanted Waters of Jorge de Montemayor and the Riaño Reservoir
Margaret Marek

4. Of Witches and Land Reform in Enlightenment Spain
Daniel Frost

5. Plant, Animal, and Human Consciousness in Julio Llamazares's Luna de lobos
Olga Colbert

Part Two: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene

6. Leonardo Torres Quevedo's Automata and the Consolidation of Technological Regenerationism
Óscar Iván Useche

7. The Specter of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's Cañas y barro
Michael L. Martínez, Jr.

8. Jesús Carrasco's Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity
William Viestenz

9. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero's Times of Hatred
Juan Carlos Martín Galván

10. The Salvage Poetics of Ben Clark's Basura
Micah McKay

Part Three: Disruptive Agentic Paradigms

11. Ecofeminist Materialism and Entanglements of Care in Sara Mesa's Un incendio invisible
Maryanne L. Leone

12. Trans-Corporeal Matter Narratives in Hierro
Ma Luz González-Rodríguez and Ma Concepción Brito-Vera

13. ¡El toro no entiende de toreo!: Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez's Antitaurine Essays, and the Emergence of Posthumanist Views of Animals in Spain
Daniel Ares-López

14. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sánchez Piñol's Cold Skin
Shanna Lino

Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter

15. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García's Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela
Victoria L. Ketz

16. La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain's Greatest Ecological Disaster
Carla Almanza-Gálvez

17. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic
Christine M. Martínez

List of Contributors

Index