Beyond Human
Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism
Published on 19. September 2023
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-1-4875-4832-2 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 colour illustrations, 1 b&w illustration, 1 colour map
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 238 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
878 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-4832-2 (9781487548322)
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Persons
Maryanne L. Leone is a professor of Spanish and chairperson of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures at Assumption University.
Shanna Lino is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at York University's Glendon College.
Shanna Lino is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at York University's Glendon College.
Content
List of Map and Illustrations
Foreword
Luis I. Pradanos
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 Riano 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
Oscar Ivan Useche
7. The Specter of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibanez's Canas y barro
Michael L. Martinez, Jr.
8. Jesus Carrasco's Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity
William Viestenz
9. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero's Times of Hatred
Juan Carlos Martin Galvan
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 Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Ma Concepcion Brito-Vera
13. !El toro no entiende de toreo!: Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernandez Florez's Antitaurine Essays, and the Emergence of Posthumanist Views of Animals in Spain
Daniel Ares-Lopez
14. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sanchez Pinol's Cold Skin
Shanna Lino
Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter
15. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego Garcia's Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela
Victoria L. Ketz
16. La cuenta atras: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain's Greatest Ecological Disaster
Carla Almanza-Galvez
17. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic
Christine M. Martinez
List of Contributors
Index
Foreword
Luis I. Pradanos
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 Riano 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
Oscar Ivan Useche
7. The Specter of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibanez's Canas y barro
Michael L. Martinez, Jr.
8. Jesus Carrasco's Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity
William Viestenz
9. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero's Times of Hatred
Juan Carlos Martin Galvan
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 Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Ma Concepcion Brito-Vera
13. !El toro no entiende de toreo!: Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernandez Florez's Antitaurine Essays, and the Emergence of Posthumanist Views of Animals in Spain
Daniel Ares-Lopez
14. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sanchez Pinol's Cold Skin
Shanna Lino
Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter
15. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego Garcia's Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela
Victoria L. Ketz
16. La cuenta atras: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain's Greatest Ecological Disaster
Carla Almanza-Galvez
17. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic
Christine M. Martinez
List of Contributors
Index