{"product_id":"the-poetics-of-plants-in-spanish-american-literature-paperback-1","title":"The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Wylie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e examines the defining role of plants in cultural expression across Latin America, particularly in literature. From the colonial georgic to Pablo Neruda's \u003ci\u003eCanto general\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 ?rboles.\" 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLesley Wylie \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eColonial Tropes and Postcolonial Tricks: Rewriting the Tropics in the Novela de la Selva\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eColombia's Forgotten Frontier: A Literary Geography of the Putumayo\u003c\/i\u003e. She is assistant editor of the \u003ci\u003eBulletin of Spanish Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 24, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703945359667,"sku":"9780822967316","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/FFu4xEEw59780822967316_851de422-591f-4e57-b336-a022313e79d8.webp?v=1763344711","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-poetics-of-plants-in-spanish-american-literature-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}