Spanning the whole of Latin America, including Brazil, from its beginnings in 1492 up to the present time, Rivera-Barnes and Hoeg analyze the relationship between literature and the environment in both literary and testimonial texts, asking questions that contribute to the on-going dialogue between the arts and the sciences.

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BEATRIZ RIVERA-BARNES is Associate Professor of Spanish at Penn State Worthington Scranton, USA.
JERRY HOEG is Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

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To Discover, an Intransitive Verb; Christopher Columbus's First Encounter with the American Landscape Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Water? The Hurricanes that Foundered and the Swamps that Hindered Alvar Núnez Cabeza de Vaca Picaresque Nature: Conquistadors, Parrots, Parasites, Mimics Andrés Bello's 'Ode to Tropical Agriculture': The Landscape of Independence 'I do not Weep for Camaguey': Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's 19th Century Cuban Landscape Rebellion in the Backlands ( Os Sertões ): The Darwinian Landscape Yuyos are not Weeds: An Ecocritical Approach to Horacio Quiroga The Landscapes of Venezuela: Doña Bárbara 'It didn't work, Mother. You should have let me stay here.' Alegría's and Flakoll's Ashes of Izalco Pablo Neruda's Latin American Landscape: Nations, Economy, Nature Love in the Time of Somoza: (Gioconda Belli's Ambivalent Ecofeminism) The Landscape of the Consumer Society: Fernando Contreras Castro's Unica mirando al mar