Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America Volume 37

by Victoria Saramago

Book Overview

Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810142597
• ISBN13: 9780810142596
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"