Planet Earth Strikes Back:Landscapes of Toxicity in Latin American Fiction  

作　　者：Leila Lehnen 

机构地区：[1]Brown University

出　　处：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》2021年第2期22-32,155,共12页外国语言与文化（英文）

摘　　要：This essay discusses how contemporary Latin American literature(Argentina,Brazil,and Colombia)employs the discourse of toxicity-condensed in the metaphor of bio-engineering and mutation-to process and interrogate what Jason Moore has called the“Capitolecene.”Moore proposes to understand the“accumulation of capital,the pursuit of power,and the co-production of nature in dialectical unity.”This essay considers how the co-production of nature,impelled by greed(a recurring allegory of capitalism)goes terribly wrong by generating toxic biomes.As such,these texts function as ecocritical allegories of the Capitolecene(specifically in its iteration as biocapitalism)and its human and environmental consequences.

关 键 词：ECOCRITICISM Latin American literature Capitolecene toxic discourse 

分 类 号：I73[文学—其他各国文学]