Literature Beyond the Human

Luca Bacchini is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the editor of Maestro Soberano: Ensaios sobre Antonio Carlos Jobim (2017), and the author of Nudi come Adamo: L’immaginario biblico nelle cronache dal Nuovo Mondo (2018). Victoria Saramago is Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America (2021).

Introduction: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil

PART I

Multiple Natures

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, "Nature as Nation"

Rex P. Nielson, "‘Filhos do mesmo solo’: Euclides da Cunha’s Environmental Imagination

Javier Uriarte, "Capital, Bodies, and the Environment in Alberto Rangel’s Stories"

Raúl Antelo, "Cannibal Politics: From the Anthropophagic to the Anthropoemic"

Malcolm K. McNee, "The Pluriversed Landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista: From Ecopoetry to Environmental Humanities"

PART II

Anthropoethnocentrism and the Animal Gaze

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, "A Pale Shade of Violet: Animals and Race in Machado de Assis"

Maria Esther Maciel, "Shared Life: The Zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade"

Ettore Finazzi-Agrò, "The Nature and/of the Animal: Environment and World in the Work of João Guimarães Rosa"

Sérgio Medeiros, "Listening to the Jaguar and the Tapir: An Outline of a Wild Pedagogy"

Patrícia Vieira, "Food Ethics in the Work of Astrid Cabral"

PART III

Present Crises and the Anthropocene

Bruno Carvalho, "The Future as a Necessity: Reading Clarice Lispector in the Anthropocene"

Odile Cisneros, "The Poetry of Garbage in Contemporary Brazilian Culture"

Mark Anderson, "False Gifts and Epidemic Fumes: Extractivism’s Traces and Cosmopolitical Resistances in Davi Kopenawa Yanomami’s The Falling Sky"

PART IV

Closing Contribution

Ailton Krenak, "Thinking With Your Head on Earth"

(Curated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias)