1st Edition

Literature Beyond the Human Post-Anthropocentric Brazil

Edited By Luca Bacchini, Victoria Saramago Copyright 2023
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

How can Clarice Lispector’s writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental degradation and the production of knowledge? Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays... Read more

Introduction: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil

PART I

Multiple Natures

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, "Nature as Nation"

Rex P. Nielson, "‘Filhos do mesmo solo’: Euclides da Cunha’s Environmental Imagination

Javier Uriarte, "Capital, Bodies, and the Environment in Alberto Rangel’s Stories"

Raúl Antelo, "Cannibal Politics: From the Anthropophagic to the Anthropoemic"

Malcolm K. McNee, "The Pluriversed Landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista: From Ecopoetry to Environmental Humanities"

PART II

Anthropoethnocentrism and the Animal Gaze

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, "A Pale Shade of Violet: Animals and Race in Machado de Assis"

Maria Esther Maciel, "Shared Life: The Zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade"

Ettore Finazzi-Agrò, "The Nature and/of the Animal: Environment and World in the Work of João Guimarães Rosa"

Sérgio Medeiros, "Listening to the Jaguar and the Tapir: An Outline of a Wild Pedagogy"

Patrícia Vieira, "Food Ethics in the Work of Astrid Cabral"

PART III

Present Crises and the Anthropocene

Bruno Carvalho, "The Future as a Necessity: Reading Clarice Lispector in the Anthropocene"

Odile Cisneros, "The Poetry of Garbage in Contemporary Brazilian Culture"

Mark Anderson, "False Gifts and Epidemic Fumes: Extractivism’s Traces and Cosmopolitical Resistances in Davi Kopenawa Yanomami’s The Falling Sky"

PART IV 

Closing Contribution

Ailton Krenak, "Thinking With Your Head on Earth"

(Curated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias)

Biography

Luca Bacchini is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the editor of Maestro Soberano: Ensaios sobre Antonio Carlos Jobim (2017), and the author of Nudi come Adamo: L’immaginario biblico nelle cronache dal Nuovo Mondo (2018).

Victoria Saramago is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (2021).