Description:
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments.
Review Quotes: "Wide-ranging, starkly original, and sharp, Fictional Environments is full of brilliant insights on the multiple relationships between writing and ecologies. While revisiting canonical texts and bringing together critical traditions often kept apart, Saramago sheds new light on our understanding of conservation, development, and the rights of nature and fiction, in Latin America and beyond. The book never loses sight of what's at stake as it reflects on the limits and possibilities of literary creation amid ongoing environmental devastation." --Bruno Carvalho, author of Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro