Table of Contents
Acknowledgment General Introduction: Genealogies of Latin American Environmental CultureChapter 1: New World Natures1. Christopher Columbus: “Letter to Various Persons” (1493) 2. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés: from General and Natural History of the Indies (1535-1557) 3. Fray Bartolomé de las Casas: “Plague of Ants” (1875) 4. Gaspar de Carvajal: from The Discovery of the Amazon (c. 1542) 5. Jean de Léry: “Of the Trees, Herbs, Roots, and Exquisite Fruits Produced by the Land of Brazil” (1578) 6. José de Acosta: “Of the Three Kinds of Mixtures that will be Dealt with in this History” (1590) 7. Anonymous: from Popol vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya (c. 1554-1558/1701) 8. Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca: from Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (1609)Chapter 2: Creole Landscapes1. Father Antonio Ruiz de Montoya: from The Spiritual Conquest (1639) 2. The Catholic Church: from The True Life of Saint Rosa of Lima (1897) 3. André Joao Antonil: from Brazil at the Dawn of the Eighteenth Century (1711) 4. Father Jacinto Morán de Butrón: “She Flees to the Desert” (1724) 5. Georges Louis Le Clerc, Comte de Buffon: from Buffon's Natural History, Abridged (1749-1788) 6. José Martín Félix de Árrate y Acosta: “On the Goodness and Excellence of the Open Spaces of this City” (1761) 7. Francisco Javier de Clavijero: from Geographical Description of Mexico (1780) 8. Juan Ignacio Molina: from The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chile (1782)Chapter 3: Nature and the Foundation of the Nation-States1. Simón Bolívar: “My Delirium on Chimborazo” (1822) 2. Andrés Bello: “Ode to Tropical Agriculture” (1826) 3. Simón Rodríguez: “Observations on the Terrain of Vincocaya” (1830) 4. Johann Rudolf Rengger: From Journey to Paraguay in the Years 1818 to 1826 (1835) 5. José María Heredia y Heredia: “In a Storm” (c. 1835) 6. Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: From Sab (1841) 7. Domingo F. Sarmiento: “Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic” (1845) 8. José María Samper: “The Marvelous Exuberance of Life and the Forces of Nature…” (1861)Chapter 4: Regionalism and the Export Boom1. José Martí: “Our America” (1891) 2. Baldomero Lillo: “The Invalids,” from Sub-terra (1904) 3. Horacio Quiroga: “The Log-Fishermen” (1913) 4. José Eustasio Rivera: from The Vortex (1924) 5. César Uribe Piedrahita: “Mun Hospital,” from Oil Stain (1935) 6. Juan Marín: from 53rd Parallel South (1936) 7. Graciliano Ramos: “The Birds,” from Barren Lives (1938) 8. Ramón Amaya Amador: “Green Destiny,” from Green Prison (1950)Chapter 5: Modern Metropoles1. Julián del Casal: “In the Country” (1893) 2. Rafael Barrett: “Tree Haters” (1907) 3. Manuel González Prada: “Le Tour du Propriétaire” (1911) 4. Pierre Quiroule: from The American Anarchist City (1914) 5. Oswald de Andrade: “Cannibalist Manifesto” (1928) 6. Rubén Darío: “Reincarnations” (1890); “Philosophy” (1905); “Song of the Pines” (1907), and “Revelation” (1907) 7. Alfonsina Storni: “You Wish I Were Fair” (1918); “Sadness” (1920); “Slum Rosebushes” (1920), and “Buenos Aires Danzón” (1938) 8. María Luis Bombal: “The Tree” (1939)Chapter 6: Developmentalism1. Pablo Neruda: “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” (1950) 2. Juan Rulfo: “Luvina” (1953) 3. Lydia Cabrera: “The Ceiba,” from The Woods (1954) 4. José María Arguedas: “Bridge Over the World,” from Deep Waters (1958) 5. Esteban Montejo: “Life in the Woods,” from Biography of a Runaway Slave (1966) 6. Clarice Lispector: from The Passion According to G.H. (1964) 7. Carlos Drummond de Andrade: “Farewell to the Seven Falls” (1982) 8. Rigoberta Menchú: from I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1985)Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Globalization1. Chico Mendes: “The Landowners Strike Back,” from Fight for the forest (1989) 2. Octavio Paz: from “In Search of the Present,” (Nobel Lecture) (1990) 3. Juan Carlos Galeano: “Curupira;” “Dark Shamans;” “Cantagalo,” and “Lupuna” (1992) 4. Fernando Contreras Castro: from Única looking out to sea (1994) 5. Gioconda Belli: from Waslala (1996) 6. Subcommandant Marcos: A Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Saramago (1999) 7. Eduardo del Llano: “Greenpeace” (2000) 8. Esthela Calderón: “The Woman I Could Have Been;” “Seed of I Don’t Know What,” and “Talking with My Worms” (2012)Chapter 8: End Times: Climate Change and Mass Extinction1. Homero Aridjis: “Uncreation” (1994); “The Last Night of the World” (1994); “The Hunt for the Red Jaguar” (2005), and “Images of Butterflies” (2014) 2. José Emilio Pacheco: “Equation to the First Degree, with Unknown Quantity;” “Whales;” “Augury,” and “Baboon Babble” (1993) 3. Mayra Montero: “Indian Hut,” from In the Palm of Darkness (1997) 4. Jaime Huenún: “Ceremony of Love” and “Ceremony of Death” (1998) 5. Samanta Schweblin: from Fever Dream (2014) 6. Berta Cáceres: Goldman Environmental Prize Acceptance Speech (2015) 7. Pope Francis: from Laudato Si’ (2015) 8. Eduardo Chirinos: “The K/T Boundary Chronicle;” “The Toba Chronicle,” and “The Chernobyl Chronicle” (2013) Notes Bibliography Index