- Mexican Literature, Latin American literature, Literature and the Environment, Border Studies, The Novel, Mexican Studies, and 35 moreLiteratura Latinoamericana, Environmental Justice, Ecocriticism, Borders and Borderlands, Literatura mexicana, Latin American Studies, Environmental Humanities, Borders and Frontiers, Animals in Culture, Latin America, Mexico, Water, Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning, Environmental Policy and Governance, Environmental Sustainability, Literature and Environment, Animal Studies, Spanish, Literatura española e hispanoamericana, Postmodern Fiction, Mexican Cinema, Indigenous ecological knowledges and practices, Environmental Political Theory, Andean studies, Biopolitics, Anthropocene, Latin American Literature (Literature), Climate Politics, Contemporary Mexican Literature, Literatura brasileira, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Latinoamerica, Critical Animal Studies, Novel, and Mario Vargas Llosaedit
This book, published in 1996, focusses on the novel "Terra Nostra" and architecture. Here I am uploading the Table of Contents and Preface to afford readers an opportunity to see an outline of the content of the book.
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Upon invitation from Julio Ortega, I wrote this prologue for an edition of Carlos Fuentes's novel Gringo Viejo, published recently in Mexico.
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In this brief piece, currently in press, I do some rethinking, as a Latin Americanist, of the novels of American writer Rikki Ducornet. She strikes me as very Borgesian, but also very rascuache...
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In July of 2011, eight months after his Novel Prize, I interviewed Vargas Llosa in Madrid. This interview has been printed in my book on Vargas Llosa, MVLl: A Life in Writing (U Texas P, 2014).
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The Preface for Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life in Writing (draft for book published in 2014, University of Texas Press).
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A consideration of new approaches to the novel, written in Spanish for an event in Medellin, Colombia. An expanded version of my earlier "New Approaches..."
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This is a short paper I presented at the annual meeting of colombianistas on July 2, 2015 in Medellin. It deals with two experimental novelas de vanguardia en Colombia and the relationship of this vanguardia with the work of Dario Jaramillo
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I wrote this on request for a campus magazine at Washington State University. A brief reflection on the fact that I was a freshman undergraduate when Vargas Llosa resided in Pullman as an Artist-in-Residence at WSU.
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A proposal for a new role of the discipline of Spanish in the twenty-first century university in the Americas. Originally published in a volume in honor of Lanin Gyurko.
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I provide the book cover and Table of Contents for 2003 award-winning book THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPANISH-AMERICAN NOVEL. An attempt to broaden the canon.
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After a brief review of precedents, I offer a reading of Garcia Marquez's canonical novel within the context of ecocriticism. Published in the Cambridge Companion to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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Intended as an introduction to this study,this is a draft of the first 73 pages of a book recently published at the University of Texas Press (2014).
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Rethinking the rural tradition in eco-criticism, I explore the idea of rivers in urban fiction in Latin America.
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An eco-critical approach to the fiction of Vargas Llosa, taking into consideration not only the natural environment but also built environments.
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I look at new approaches to the novel, from Terra Nostra to Twitterliterature