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Trans-Species Collaborations In Response To Social, Economic, And Environmental Violence In Rosa Montero's Lágrimas En La Lluvia And El Peso Del Corazón, Maryanne L. Leone
Trans-Species Collaborations In Response To Social, Economic, And Environmental Violence In Rosa Montero's Lágrimas En La Lluvia And El Peso Del Corazón, Maryanne L. Leone
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This paper addresses Iberian ecocritical approaches and cultural responses to ecological degradation through an examination of Rosa Montero’s futuristic novels Lágrimas en la lluvia (2011) and its sequel El peso del corazón (2015). In these works, contaminated natural resources, cloning, and teleportation for interplanetary travel contribute to new social hierarchies, existential crises, and heightened xenophobia in Europe, now part of the United States of the Earth. This study places particular emphasis on the novels’ criticisms of a North-South divide, in which the use and distribution of natural resources reflects the inequitable burden of environmental contamination and economic exploitation on the …
Ecuadorian Immigration And The Transformation Of Religious And Civic Space In Madrid In La Churona: Historia De Una Virgen Migrante By María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa, Maryanne L. Leone
Ecuadorian Immigration And The Transformation Of Religious And Civic Space In Madrid In La Churona: Historia De Una Virgen Migrante By María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa, Maryanne L. Leone
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