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"Cuando Cristina Rivera Garza publicó su magnífico libro Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué dejó en claro que Juan Rulfo, en sus trayectos por el interior de México, fue desedimentando las voces que el milagro mexicano de la revolución verde había ido enterrando a través de la erradicación de comunidades enteras, sepultadas bajo el peso categórico del progreso. Esa luminosidad crítica, que ya se insinuaba conceptualmente en Los muertos indóciles y se manifiesta, materialmente, en Autobiografía del algodón, logra, en Escrituras geológicas, una teorización sofisticada y precisa, aunque, más que nada, urgente. Las escrituras geológicas son modelos de escarbar, hurgar en las capas de un pasado que se extiende y reemerge en el presente dado que nunca se ha ido. En sus capas y strata se adhieren historias de violencias coloniales y epistémicas junto a huesos y carne, junto a cultivos, laboriosidades y resistencias. Libro imprescindible -e impostergable- para revisar los tejidos materiales que han ido urdiendo las tramas históricas, tramas alojadas en los intersticios espaciales pero cuyas grietas se materializan a lo largo del tiempo en cuerpos y palabras que, por su sola existencia, impugnan su linealidad teleológica y, por lo tanto, su capacidad de construir sentidos."--Publisher's description.

Postcolonialisme. --- Latin American literature --- Latin American literature. --- Littérature latino-américaine --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique.

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Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion of the global project: the volume scrutinizes these responses in the aesthetic realm and under a "post-global" banner, while incorporating alternative, non-Western epistemologies and literatures of the post-colonial Global South.

Latin American literature --- Aesthetics. --- History and criticism. --- Latin America --- Civilization

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"A collection of selected essays by critic John Beverley in the field of literary Latin Americanism, attentive to the connections between literature, hegemony, and social conflict. It covers the period from the eighties of the last century to today. Topics include the colonial baroque and its hegemonic force in Latin American culture, testimony as an emerging genre, militant literature, postmodernism, the relationship between literary and cultural criticism and the development of the so-called Pink Tide, and in general the impact of postcolonial and subaltern studies. The collection provides a critical vision of the Latin American literate city and a defense of the field of literary criticism as a place to constitute and reconstitute hegemony. In this sense, it stands both against the so-called 'crisis in the humanities' induced by the ideological effects of neoliberalism, but also against critical positions, such as deconstruction, which aspire to a transcendence of literary criticism as such, and of the project of Latin Americanism in general terms"--

Criticism --- Latin American literature --- History. --- Social aspects --- History and criticism.

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As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions.

Literary studies: general --- Latin American literature;historical fiction;Argentinian independence;Latin American independence;Argentina

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Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, the book also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism. The scope is broad, encompassing not only the Global South but also parts of the Global North that have been subject to environmental degradation as a result of colonial practices. Considering both the climate crisis and the crisis in the humanities, the volume navigates theoretical resources, contextual scaffolding, classroom activities, assessment, and pedagogical possibilities and challenges. Essays are grounded in environmental justice and the project to decolonize the classroom, addressing works from Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Latin America and issues such as queer ecofeminism, disability, Latinx literary production, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, and working with environmental justice organizations.

African literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- East Asian literature --- Ecocriticism --- Ecology in literature --- Environmental literature --- Latin American literature --- Nature in literature --- Study and teaching (Higher). --- Study and teaching (Higher)