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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: poetics of plants in Spanish American literature
  name:
    name part: Wylie, Lesley
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda's Canto general, Lesley Wylie's close study of botanical imagery demonstrates the fundamental role of the natural world and the relationship between people and plants in the region. Plants are also central to literary forms originating in the Americas, such as the New World Baroque, described by Alejo Carpentier as "nacido de árboles." The book establishes how vegetal imaginaries are key to Spanish American attempts to renovate European forms and traditions as well as to the reconfiguration of the relationship between humans and nonhumans. Such a reconfiguration, which persistently draws on indigenous animist ontologies to blur the boundaries between people and plants, anticipates much contemporary ecological thinking about our responsibility towards nonhuman nature and shows how environmental thinking by way of plants has a long history in Latin American literature.
  table of contents: Introduction: The poetics of plants in Spanish American literature -- "¡Salve, fecunda zona!" : sugar, soy, and the limits of the Spanish American georgic -- Plants and plantations : floriography, femininity, and the horticulture of hair in Sab and María -- "Nacido de árboles" : Carpentier's vegetal baroque -- What is it like to be a tree? Anthropomorphism, phytomorphism, and Spanish American culture -- "No termino en mí mismo" : "Vegetal-thinking" in Pablo Neruda.
  note: Lesley Wylie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Spanish American literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Plants in literature
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Human-plant relationships in literature
  classification: PQ7081 .W95 2020
  classification: 860.9/36098
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  identifier: 9780822946250
  identifier: 0822946254
  identifier: 9780822987666
  identifier: 2020034701
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200803
    record change date: 20210422111604.0
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