Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-18106-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 103 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 273 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced to this day in the Amazonian region. Amazonian thinking, in dialogue with the thought of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Emanuele Coccia and others, can serve to bring plant theory in the humanities beyond its current focus on how the organic existence of plants is projected into culture. Contemporary Amazonian indigenous literature takes us beyond conventional theory and into the unsuspected reaches of vegetal networks. It shows that what matters about plants are not just their strictly biological and ecological projections, but the manner in which they interact with multiple species and cultural actors in continuously shifting bodies and points of view, by becoming-other, and fashioning a natural and social diplomacy in which humans participate along with non-humans.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duchesne Winter, Juan R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Amazoning the Theory.- 2. Plant Theory and Amazonian Metaphysics.- 3. Writing Under the Influence: The Three Halves of Ino Moxo.- 4. Conclusion: Contrast and Pattern.

Über Autor(innen)

Juan R. Duchesne Winter is professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His previous books on Amazonian literature and philosophy are Caribe, Caribana: cosmografías literarias (2015), and Invitación al Baile del Muñeco. Máscara, pensamiento y territorio en el Amazonas (2017).