TY - JOUR
T1 - News of the Earth, by Homero Aridjis
AU - Kane, Adrian Taylor
N1 - Adrian Taylor KaneAdrian Taylor Kane is a professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of World Languages at Boise State University. He is the author of Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926-1936) (2014) and the editor of The Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings (2010).
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Homero Aridjis's Newsof the Earth is the translated and updated version of his 2012 collection of essays Noticias de la Tierra . In this anthology, the internationally acclaimed Mexican author and environmental activist offers an extensive selection of writings that chronicle his advocacy for the protection of the environment since his founding of the Group of 100 in 1985. The volume consists of 121 articles published primarily in Mexican and United States newspapers over the course of the last thirty-three years with a focus on the Group of 100's "most important battles and victories." It is divided into eleven chapters: Mexico City and the Group of 100, Grandeur and Misery of the Monarch Butterfly, Sea Turtles, A Torturous Road to Extinction, And God Created the Great Whales, Our America, Our Mexico, The Indigenous Labyrinth, Mexico in Flames, Endangered Mexico, The Global War on Animals, and The Earth Belongs to Everyone.
AB - Homero Aridjis's Newsof the Earth is the translated and updated version of his 2012 collection of essays Noticias de la Tierra . In this anthology, the internationally acclaimed Mexican author and environmental activist offers an extensive selection of writings that chronicle his advocacy for the protection of the environment since his founding of the Group of 100 in 1985. The volume consists of 121 articles published primarily in Mexican and United States newspapers over the course of the last thirty-three years with a focus on the Group of 100's "most important battles and victories." It is divided into eleven chapters: Mexico City and the Group of 100, Grandeur and Misery of the Monarch Butterfly, Sea Turtles, A Torturous Road to Extinction, And God Created the Great Whales, Our America, Our Mexico, The Indigenous Labyrinth, Mexico in Flames, Endangered Mexico, The Global War on Animals, and The Earth Belongs to Everyone.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2018.1540756
U2 - 10.1080/08905762.2018.1540756
DO - 10.1080/08905762.2018.1540756
M3 - Article
VL - 51
JO - Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
JF - Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
IS - 2
ER -