Abstract In their introduction to the volume on ecological crisis in Latin American culture, Mark Anderson states that contemporary representations of the environment in Latin American culture activate the trope of crisis and depletion. The fictions of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia take up the theme of ecological crisis via the representation of wastelands inhabited by subjects who are reduced to their bare lives. Maia’s novels not only suggest a rethinking of the environmental imaginary in Brazilian fiction that runs counter to the idealized vision of nature present in much of Brazil’s literary tradition, but also delineate a reexamination of the relationship between human, and their lived landscapes, as well as between human and non-human beings. Maia’s fictional texts employ the imaginary of environmental crisis to probe into the role that late capitalism plays in the construction of the human/ecosphere/non-human interface. Her novels suggest both an exploitative relation and, at the same time, destabilize the binary between the human and the non-human that justifies this exploitation. This paper examines how Ana Paula Maia’s two novels, De gados e homens (2014) and Enterre seus mortos (2018), employ the trope of ecological exigency to broach the slow violence implied in extractive capitalism and its effects on land, humans and non-human animals. Both novels bring to the fore the imbrication of economic exploitation of both human and non-humans and environmental crisis.

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巴西的生态批评：Ana Paula Maia 小说的荒地

摘要 在对拉丁美洲文化生态危机卷的介绍中，马克·安德森指出，拉丁美洲文化中对环境的当代表现激活了危机和枯竭的比喻。巴西作家安娜·保拉·玛亚 (Ana Paula Maia) 的小说通过描绘被沦为赤裸生命的主体所居住的荒地来呈现生态危机的主题。玛亚的小说不仅建议重新思考巴西小说中的环境想象，这与巴西大部分文学传统中对自然的理想化愿景背道而驰，而且还描​​绘了对人类与其生活景观之间的关系的重新审视，以及人类与非人类之间。Maia 的虚构文本运用环境危机的想象来探讨晚期资本主义在人类/生态圈/非人类界面的构建中所扮演的角色。她的小说既暗示了一种剥削关系，同时又破坏了为这种剥削辩护的人类与非人类之间的二元关系。本文考察了 Ana Paula Maia 的两部小说 De gados e homens (2014) 和 Enterre seus mortos (2018) 如何运用生态紧迫性的比喻来探讨榨取式资本主义所隐含的缓慢暴力及其对土地、人类和非人类动物。这两部小说都突出了对人类和非人类的经济剥削和环境危机的影响。她的小说既暗示了一种剥削关系，同时又破坏了为这种剥削辩护的人类与非人类之间的二元关系。本文考察了 Ana Paula Maia 的两部小说 De gados e homens (2014) 和 Enterre seus mortos (2018) 如何运用生态紧迫性的比喻来探讨榨取式资本主义所隐含的缓慢暴力及其对土地、人类和非人类动物。这两部小说都突出了对人类和非人类的经济剥削和环境危机的影响。她的小说既暗示了一种剥削关系，同时又破坏了为这种剥削辩护的人类与非人类之间的二元关系。本文考察了 Ana Paula Maia 的两部小说 De gados e homens (2014) 和 Enterre seus mortos (2018) 如何运用生态紧迫性的比喻来探讨榨取式资本主义所隐含的缓慢暴力及其对土地、人类和非人类动物。这两部小说都突出了对人类和非人类的经济剥削和环境危机的影响。运用生态紧迫性的比喻来探讨榨取式资本主义所隐含的缓慢暴力及其对土地、人类和非人类动物的影响。这两部小说都突出了对人类和非人类的经济剥削和环境危机的影响。运用生态紧迫性的比喻来探讨榨取式资本主义所隐含的缓慢暴力及其对土地、人类和非人类动物的影响。这两部小说都突出了对人类和非人类的经济剥削和环境危机的影响。