Approaching the Eco-Cheap
Human and Non-Human Commodities in Hispanic Cultural Production
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.
This book explores the treatment of nature, animals, and fellow human beings in what Cary Wolfe describes what is ontologically and chronologically “before the law.” Rivera-Barnes offers close readings of canonical Hispanic texts largely focusing on the 20th century. The author uses ecofeminism to explore instances of degradation of nature, animals, and women in these texts.
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Table of Contents
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. 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.)
Product details
| Published | Dec 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781978770256 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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