The Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art

This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, transnational dialogue.

Auteur
Malcolm K. McNee is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Smith College, USA.

Contenu
Introduction: Land that Seemed to Us Quite Vast 1. Ecopoetry and Earth Art: Theoretical Orientations and Brazilian Inflections 2. Manoel de Barros and Astrid Cabral: Between Backyard Swamps and the Cosmos 3. Sérgio Medeiros and Josely Vianna Baptista: Meta-Landscape and the (Re)Turn of the Native 4. Frans Krajcberg and Bené Fonteles: Art, Anti-Art, and Environmentalist Engagement 5. Lia do Rio and Nuno Ramos: The Art of Nature Estranged Epilogue: Notes from the Creative Margins of Rio+20