![]() These works are precursors to the literary environmentalism of Sepulveda's novel and deserve a place in the canon of the novela de la selva. However, I propose a counter-tradition in the novela de la selva genre that expresses aspects of environmentalism such as the principles of "deep ecology," the role of emotion in nature protectionism, conservationism, the rights of nonhuman nature, etc. I find that many of the well-established titles from the genre utilize a discourse of political ecology that can be characterized by its appeals to agents of the state. ![]() In this paper, I begin with the identification of a moment of intertextuality between Un viejo que leia novelas de amor (1989) by Chilean Luis Sepulveda and La vorágine (1924) by Colombian Jose Eustasio Rivera as an analytical motif for a reevaluation of the environmentalism and political ecologies in the Spanish American novela de la selva tradition. ![]()
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