Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: The Iberian World
Chapter 1: Dark Alchemy: Celestina, or the Hatred of Love
Chapter 2: Intimate Haters, Difficult Literatures
Chapter 3: Odium Dei: Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez
Part Two: Diaries of the Americas
Chapter 4: With Hate Leading the Way: Pieces of Aguirre and Other Doomed Expeditions
Chapter 5: Hating Crows: The Travels of Concolorcorvo! and of Ernesto Guevara
Chapter 6: The Curse of Ham, The Malediction of Changó: Nature and Terror, Mackandal’s Brood
Chapter 7: Madness and Hatred. Rivera’s Inferno
Chapter 8: Canaima, Ecophobia, and the Anthropocene
Chapter 9: Yes, it Isn’t (What Cannot be Said): Poetry to Guayama, Puerto Rico to Loisaida, New York
Chapter 10: Biophilia, Ecophobia, Eco-Odium: A Coupling with the Non-Human, Extinction, and a Loop of Vampiric Mosquitos Threatening the Anthropocene
Chapter 11: Is there a Caliban in this Narrative? The Cooking and the Eating of Hate
Bibliography
About the Author

About the Author

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes is associate professor of Spanish at Penn State University.

Reviews

In The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures Beatriz Rivera-Barnes has made of that execrable feeling called hate a fascinating object of academic study and a thought-provoking trope for the ecocritical reading of Western civilization.
*José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain*

This bold book addresses a topic in many ways antithetical to the bright hopefulness of theories that stress play, love, and co-operation as the core principles of ecology. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this book is about hatred toward nature and its sources. Equally concerned with the hatred of nature as with the nature of hatred, Rivera-Barnes is compelling in her analyses, illuminating in her discussions of a broad range of Hispanic literatures, and hopeful in her recognition and handling of the less favored threads of the complete tapestry. This accessible book is necessary reading for anyone concerned about the environment.
*Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University*

The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures is an impressive multidisciplinary collection of eleven insightful chapters that converge on the unifying themes of hate and ecophobia in major literary and cinematic works produced in the Spanish-speaking world.
*Hispania*