Abstract
This chapter explores different images of animals in two books of short stories by Alberto Rangel, Inferno verde (1908) and Sombras n’água (1913), from the perspective of ecocriticism and human geography. In dialogue with Viveiros de Castro’s notion of perspectivism, I argue that in Rangel’s representation of Amazonian space, human characters are related to animals in ways that respond to foundational myths of the region. These mythical meanings are connected to an additional dimension of animality in these narrations: in Rangel’s prose, the Amazon is a sexualized space where the presence of capital as a key player that dramatically transforms the relationships between nature and humans is represented as a form of sexual violence that destroys harmony in the environment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Literature Beyond the Human |
| Subtitle of host publication | Post-Anthropocentric Brazil |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 44-59 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781000607116 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032153995 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2022 |
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