Reviews
"Analyzes works depicting Argentina at the turn of the nineteenth century, the Amazon in the mid-twentieth century, and Mesoamerica in the future."
--The Chronicle Review
"The author reveals a solid understanding of ecocriticism, various points of view (postcolonial, Marxist, ecofeminist), and ecological imagination in modern Latin American fiction. Good notes and bibliography."
--CHOICE
"makes an eloquent case for how ecocriticism can be an illuminating approach for Latin Americanists, and, in particular, how it affords a deeper understanding of topics -- such as modernity, neocolonialism, land claims, utopian projects, race, gender, authoritarianism, and corruption -- that have long been central to Latin American literature"
--Adrian Taylor Kane, ISLE
"Provides an interesting scope for reading efofiction: the critique of the dominant economic rationality in Latin American societies."
--Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
“An important entry in the catalogue of regionally focused ecocriticism.
--The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History
It establishes a critical continuity between the exploitation of human and non-human resources. The analysis highlights the bonds between modernization projects, social exclusion, and ecological damage, showing the rhetorical and argumentative strategies that foster a consciousness of the literally vital necessity of understanding the history of economic domination and its simultaneous impact over people and places.
--Latin American Research Review