engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to inequality in Latin America and establishes an biopolitics, ethics-based reading of texts that represent the environmental and urban. Heffes highlights art, film, and literature that contributes to the project of sustainability and preservation.   weiterlesen