Chapter Eight. Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Illustrations xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction. Historicizing the Ecocrisis: Beyond-Human Experiences in Spanish Natureculture 1
7. PART ONE Tracing Environmental Culture in Spain
8. Chapter One. Lope’s Los guanches de Tenerife y conquista de Gran Canaria: An Ecolonialist Reading 33
9. Chapter Two. Birdsong and the Earth’s Polyrhythm: The Life of a Caged Blue Rock Thrush in Early Modern Spain 56
10. Chapter Three. Water Grabbing and the Dammed Esla: The Enchanted Waters of Jorge de Montemayor and the Riaño Reservoir 76
11. Chapter Four. Of Witches and Land Reform in Enlightenment Spain 102
12. Chapter Five. Plant, Animal, and Human Consciousness in Julio Llamazares’s Luna de lobos 126
13. PART TWO Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene
14. Chapter Six. Leonardo Torres Quevedo’s Automata and the Consolidation of Technological Regenerationism 155
15. Chapter Seven. The Spectre of Capitalism: Reading the Anthropocene in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas y barro 179
16. Chapter Eight. Jesús Carrasco’s Intemperie: The Literature of Post-Immunological Modernity 200
17. Chapter Nine. Transhumanism and Necropolitics in Rosa Montero’s Times of Hatred 220
18. Chapter Ten. The Salvage Poetics of Ben Clark’s Basura 244
19. PART THREE Disruptive Agentic Paradigms
20. Chapter Eleven. Ecofeminist Materialism and Entanglements of Care in Sara Mesa’s Un incendio invisible 269
21. Chapter Twelve. Trans-Corporeal Matter Narratives in Hierro 292
22. Chapter Thirteen ¡El toro no entiende de toreo! Taurine Naturecultures, Wenceslao Fernández Flórez’s Anti-Taurine Essays, and the Emergence of Post-Humanist Views of Animals in Spain 309
23. Chapter Fourteen. Ecohorror as Critique of Anthropogenic (Self-)Destruction in Albert Sánchez Piñol’s Cold Skin 333
24. PART FOUR Medium as Activism Igniter
25. Chapter Fifteen. Monstrous Humanity: An Ecopostcolonial Reading of Laura Gallego García’s Trilogy Guardianes de la Ciudadela 355
26. Chapter Sixteen. La cuenta atrás: An Ecodystopian Graphic Novel on Spain’s Greatest Ecological Disaster 375
27. Chapter Seventeen. Drawing Ecological Thought: Anthropomorphism and Satire as Critique of Capitalism in the TwentyFirst-Century Spanish Comic 401
28. Contributors 433
29. Index 441