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OverviewChronicling 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maryanne L. Leone , Shanna LinoPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Volume: 83 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.940kg ISBN: 9781487548322ISBN 10: 148754832 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 19 September 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Map and Illustrations Foreword Luis I. Prádanos 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 Riaño 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 Óscar Iván Useche 7. The Specter of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas y barro Michael L. Martínez, Jr. 8. Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity William Viestenz 9. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero’s Times of Hatred Juan Carlos Martín Galván 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 González-Rodríguez and Ma Concepción Brito-Vera 13. ¡El toro no entiende de toreo!: Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez’s Antitaurine Essays, and the Emergence of Posthumanist Views of Animals in Spain Daniel Ares-López 14. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin Shanna Lino Part Four: Medium as Activism Igniter 15. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García’s Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela Victoria L. Ketz 16. La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain’s Greatest Ecological Disaster Carla Almanza-Gálvez 17. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First-Century Spanish Comic Christine M. Martínez List of Contributors IndexReviews"""Beyond Human is an important collection of seventeen original essays traversing the environmental humanities in the context of Spanish literary and cultural studies. It is thus a compelling tour de force of non-human agencies, transcorporeality, ecohorror, material ecofeminisms, the Anthropocene debates, and more in Spanish naturecultures."" - Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University ""Bringing together Spanish cultural studies, environmental studies, and ecocriticism, this versatile volume renews the repertoire of theoretical approaches to Spanish literature and culture by modelling ecocritical analyses of texts, films, and graphic novels. The contributors showcase the relevance of ecocritical and environmental analyses from the seventeenth century onwards. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and all those interested in Spain or environmental cultural studies."" - Eugenia Afinoguénova, Professor of Spanish, Marquette University ""Comprised of a lively array of new readings of Spanish cultural production from the Renaissance to the present, Beyond Human is a must-read for scholars interested in cultural studies and environmental humanities. Spanning a half-millennium, the volume expands the archive of Spanish ecocritical thought and practice with compelling, theoretically informed essays authored by leading and emerging scholars on the social, cultural, political, and historical foundations of Spain's present ecocidal conjuncture."" - Samuel Amago, Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia, and author of Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain" Author InformationMaryanne 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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