Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature

• Main Author: Duchesne Winter, Juan R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Subjects: Ethnology-Latin America.; Latin American literature.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Latin American Culture.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Cultural Theory.; Contemporary Literature.

This book discusses new developments of plant studies and plant theory in the humanities and compares them to the exceptionally robust knowledge about plant life in indigenous traditions practiced to this day in the Amazonian region. Amazonian thinking, in dialogue with the thought of Eduardo Viveir...