Description: The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture
Review Quotes: Inviting and erudite, Lesley Wylie's new book demonstrates that posthumanism, while relatively new as a theoretical concern, has been there all along as a tendency within Latin American literature. The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature is elegantly written, nuanced, and thought provoking. It is full of surprising new readings of canonical texts, and sensitive to the tensions between human struggles for emancipation and justice and what the author calls 'the deep time of nature.'--Jennifer French, Williams College