The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures

by Beatriz Rivera-Barnes

Overview

This book retraces “the nature of hate” as hate in its primal form as told and conveyed in so many culturally influential Bible stories that are at the root of hatred as it manifests itself today and “the hatred of nature” as contempt for the natural world and also nature hating in return through Western literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498596480
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/16/2020
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.29(w) x 9.39(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes is associate professor of Spanish at Penn State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: The Iberian World Chapter 1: Dark Alchemy: Celestina, or the Hatred of Love Chapter 2: Intimate Haters, Difficult Literatures Chapter 3: Odium Dei: Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez Part Two: Diaries of the Americas Chapter 4: With Hate Leading the Way: Pieces of Aguirre and Other Doomed Expeditions Chapter 5: Hating Crows: The Travels of Concolorcorvo! and of Ernesto Guevara Chapter 6: The Curse of Ham, The Malediction of Changó: Nature and Terror, Mackandal’s Brood Chapter 7: Madness and Hatred. Rivera’s Inferno Chapter 8: Canaima, Ecophobia, and the Anthropocene Chapter 9: Yes, it Isn’t (What Cannot be Said): Poetry to Guayama, Puerto Rico to Loisaida, New York Chapter 10: Biophilia, Ecophobia, Eco-Odium: A Coupling with the Non-Human, Extinction, and a Loop of Vampiric Mosquitos Threatening the Anthropocene Chapter 11: Is there a Caliban in this Narrative? The Cooking and the Eating of Hate Bibliography About the Author

Editorial Reviews

This bold book addresses a topic in many ways antithetical to the bright hopefulness of theories that stress play, love, and co-operation as the core principles of ecology. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this book is about hatred toward nature and its sources. Equally concerned with the hatred of nature as with the nature of hatred, Rivera-Barnes is compelling in her analyses, illuminating in her discussions of a broad range of Hispanic literatures, and hopeful in her recognition and handling of the less favored threads of the complete tapestry. This accessible book is necessary reading for anyone concerned about the environment. 

Simon C. Estok

The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures is an impressive multidisciplinary collection of eleven insightful chapters that converge on the unifying themes of hate and ecophobia in major literary and cinematic works produced in the Spanish-speaking world.

Hispania

In The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures Beatriz Rivera-Barnes has made of that execrable feeling called hate a fascinating object of academic study and a thought-provoking trope for the ecocritical reading of Western civilization. 

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

In The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures Beatriz Rivera-Barnes has made of that execrable feeling called hate a fascinating object of academic study and a thought-provoking trope for the ecocritical reading of Western civilization. 

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez