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Approaching the Eco-Cheap

Human and Non-Human Commodities in Hispanic Cultural Production

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Approaching the Eco-Cheap

Human and Non-Human Commodities in Hispanic Cultural Production

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Placing her study at the intersection of ecocritical, labor, ethnic, animal, and women's studies, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes demonstrates how exploitation cheapens humans, animals, and nature's bounties.

Rivera-Barnes explores the treatment of nature, animals, and fellow human beings in what Cary Wolfe describes what is ontologically and chronologically “before the law.” Offering close readings of canonical Hispanic texts largely focusing on the 20th century, the author utilizes ecofeminism to explore instances of degradation of nature, animals, and women in these texts.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Introduction
1. In the Beginning was the Fable! Animals: From Textually Transmitted Beasts to Commodities in Amores Perros and Calila e Dimna
2. (Com)promised Lands, Agriculture as Sin
3. Cheapening the Earth: Biopower in Early XXth Century Latin American Novels of Extraction
4. Good-bye to a Cow Named Lamb. The Lyrics of Farewell to the Asturian Countryside Devalued by the Old and the New
5. Chapter Five, Is Slave Labor Cheap? Transforming the Landscape: Lydia Cabrera's El Monte, Environment, History, Culture
6. Ecofeminism Antedating its Genesis: The Value of Women in Early XXth Century Latin American Novels of Extraction
7. Talk is Cheap. Is Beauty Cheap? The Trajectory From Canaima to Beauty Pageants
8. Interrupted Meals and Broken Oikos: Parasites, Vampires, Dictators
9. Fifty Shades of Pink and Innocent Pornographers: Biopolitics and the Feminine Literature of Fascist Spain
10. Trust, Blood, and Pain: Is Money Cheap? (By Way of Conclusion.)

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 21 Jan 2027
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 208
ISBN 9798216256465
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 5 b/w illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes is associate professor of Sp…

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