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Fictional Environments All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The FlashPoints series is devoted to books that consider literature beyond strictly national and disciplinary frameworks and that are distinguished both by their historical grounding and by their theoretical and conceptual strength. Our books engage theory without losing touch with history and work historically without falling into uncritical positivism. FlashPoints aims for a broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation. In a Benjaminian mode, FlashPoints is interested in how liter- ature contributes to forming new constellations of culture and history and in how such formations function critically and politically in the present. Series titles are available online at http://escholarship.org/uc/f ashpoints. series editors: Ali Behdad (Comparative Literature and English, UCLA), Edi- tor Emeritus; Judith Butler (Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley), Editor Emerita; Michelle Clayton (Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, Brown University); Edward Dimendberg (Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies, and European Languages and Studies, UC Irvine), Founding Editor; Catherine Gallagher (English, UC Berkeley), Editor Emerita; Nouri Gana (Comparative Lit- erature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA); Susan Gillman (Lit- erature, UC Santa Cruz), Coordinator; Jody Greene (Literature, UC Santa Cruz); Richard Terdiman (Literature, UC Santa Cruz), Founding Editor A complete list of titles begins on p. 275. All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Fictional Environments Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America Victoria Saramago northwestern university press | evanston, illinois All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2021 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2021. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data Names: Saramago, Victoria, 1985- author. Title: Fictional environments : mimesis, deforestation, and development in Latin America / Victoria Saramago. Other titles: FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021. | Series: FlashPoints | Includes bibliographical references. Identif ers: LCCN 2020031381 | ISBN 9780810142596 (paperback) | ISBN 9780810142602 (cloth) | ISBN 9780810142619 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Spanish American f ction—20th century—History and criticism. | Brazilian f ction—20th century—History and criticism. | Environmentalism in literature. | Ecof ction—History and criticism. Classif cation: LCC PQ7082.N7 S356 2021 | DDC 863.60998—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031381 All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For Guillaume and Adrian All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 Part I. Conservation Chapter 1. The Sertão Reconstructed: João Guimarães Rosa’s Grande sertão: Veredas 31 Chapter 2. Narrative Conservation and Conservationist Narratives: Alejo Carpentier’s Gran Sabana 61 Part II. Development Chapter 3. Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and the Green Revolution: Modern Literary and Agricultural Dilemmas 93 Chapter 4. Besieged Plots: Nonhuman Agency in Clarice Lispector’s A cidade sitiada 123 Part III. The Rights of Nature, the Rights of Fiction Chapter 5. Against Wind and Tide: Fiction, Ecology, and Politics in Mario Vargas Llosa’s Amazon 149 Conclusion 181 All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Notes 185 Bibliography 233 Index 259 All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments I was once advised to create an acknowledgments f le in my book man- uscript folder to keep track all the people who left their mark on this book. At the time, I was not aware that, like a Polaris or a Southern Cross, this list would gradually become one of the most cherished and reassuring points of reference among the labyrinthine profusion of f les that populated my manuscript’s folders. Nor was I aware, at the time, that transferring these names from the screen of my computer to the pages of this book would become such a rite of remembrance and gratitude. This book would not exist in its present form without the feedback of colleagues who read and commented on the current version and pre- vious ones. I am indebted to Dain Borges, Bruno Carvalho, Caroline Egan, Gustavo Furtado, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Gisela Heffes, Ursula Heise, Héctor Hoyos, Alison James, Marília Librandi-R ocha, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Agnes Lugo-O rtiz, Paulo Moreira, Sarah Quesada, An- drei Pop, Jorge Ruff nelli, and Carolina Sá-C arvalho. I also thank three anonymous readers who reviewed the manuscript for Northwestern University Press for their combination of enthusiasm and productive feedback. I am grateful to colleagues who gave me the opportunity to pre- sent portions of this book: Leonardo Davino, Davi Pinho, and Andréa Werkema at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Felippe and Ingrid Robyn at the Latin American Studies Association, Alison James ix All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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