Beyond Human: Decentring the Anthropocene in Spanish Ecocriticism

Maryanne L. Leone (Curatore)

Shanna Lino (Curatore)

University of Toronto Press, 2023

Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human–human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

• Curatore: Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Collana: Toronto Iberic
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 488 p.
• Dimensioni: 231 x 152 mm
• Peso: 940 gr.
• EAN: 9781487548322

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