Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Iberian World

Chapter 1: Dark Alchemy: Celestina, or the Hatred of Love

Chapter 2: Intimate Haters, Difficult Literatures

Chapter 3: Odium Dei: Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sánchez

Part Two: Diaries of the Americas

Chapter 4: With Hate Leading the Way: Pieces of Aguirre and Other Doomed Expeditions

Chapter 5: Hating Crows: The Travels of Concolorcorvo! and of Ernesto Guevara

Chapter 6: The Curse of Ham, The Malediction of Changó: Nature and Terror, Mackandal’s Brood

Chapter 7: Madness and Hatred. Rivera’s Inferno

Chapter 8: Canaima, Ecophobia, and the Anthropocene

Chapter 9: Yes, it Isn’t (What Cannot be Said): Poetry to Guayama, Puerto Rico to Loisaida, New York

Chapter 10: Biophilia, Ecophobia, Eco-Odium: A Coupling with the Non-Human, Extinction, and a Loop of Vampiric Mosquitos Threatening the Anthropocene

Chapter 11: Is there a Caliban in this Narrative? The Cooking and the Eating of Hate

Bibliography

About the Author

About the Author

Beatriz Rivera-Barnes is associate professor of Spanish at Penn State University.

Reviews

In The Nature of Hate and the Hatred of Nature in Hispanic Literatures Beatriz Rivera-Barnes has made of that execrable feeling called hate a fascinating object of academic study and a thought-provoking trope for the ecocritical reading of Western civilization.
*José Manuel Marrero Henríquez*