colonialism

Novas Histórias Ambientais da América Latina e do Caribe

About this issue

Esta coletânea reúne alguns dos principais estudiosos das histórias ambientais da América Latina e do Caribe. Ela sugere novas perspectivas para discutir o desenvolvimento do continente no período pós-colonial. Estes ensaios narram histórias variadas sobre as interações complexas entre sociedades, estados, territórios e ecossistemas. Eles questionam narrativas anteriormente aceitas e abrem novos horizontes de interpretação.

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Nuclear colonialism

Nuclear colonialism

In this chapter of the online exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu writes about the impacts of US nuclear testing.

About the author

About the author

Hsuan L. Hsu is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming).

Monster movies

Monster movies

Literary scholar Hsu Hsuan writes about the relation between the content of monster movies like Godzilla and US military activity in the Pacific. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization.”

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