Garbage Out: Space, Place, and Neoimperial Antidevelopment in Gioconda Belli’s Waslala
Authors
DeVries, ScottPublisher
Universidad de Alcalá
Date
2010-10Bibliographic citation
Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 1, n. 2 (2010), pp. 38-50
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Publisher's version
http://ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/63/237Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Gioconda Belli’s Waslala criticizes the concept of “anti-developmental neo-imperialism”: the novel’s fictional Central American nation's development is
cancelled by a form of neo-imperial conservation that forces the preservation of
rainforest to supply breathable air to oxygen-starved nations that will cut off
electrical power for non--compliance. The theoretical approach engages with the
idea of a global expansion of the sense of place, but I argue that the novel rejects
this notion when it comes down to an “anti-developmental neo-imperialist”
political ecology of forced conservationism that is as guilty of environmental
injustice as the ecological practices it seeks to prevent.
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