RILE III PRESENTATION

Abstract

This edition of RILE brings together literary and non-literary articles, such as “When Mountains
Disappear and The Rivers Dry, Can People Survive?”, and “A História Silenciosa da Exploração
Mineral” (The Silent History of Mineral Exploration). The relevance of these articles lies in
establishing methodological and thematic parameters for understanding human, non-human
ecology and above all, the power structures that underlie the environmental problems in the
Global South. In this way, Kodagu and the Amazonia become metaphors of countless degraded
areas and population conflicts and, ecologically devastated environments. The article “Da
Literatura Simbólica-Imagética à extinção dos Botos da Amazônica”, (From Symbolic-Image
Literature to the Extinction of the Amazonian Dolphins) is configured as narrative of a profound
critical content, as it evaluates the discrepancies between the folkloric discursive constructions
and the harsh realty about the extinction of the Amazonian dolphins. The article “O Bilinguismo
dos Jovens Indígenas da Etnia Seteré-Mawé e o ensino da Língua Portuguesa” (The Bilingualism
of the Young Indigenous of the Sateré-Mawé Ethnicity) and the Teaching of Portuguese
Language) symbolically completes the broad thematic context under which the Latin American
Eco-Criticism (and not necessarily the Ecocritic) is inserted. The article “From Gabriela Mistral
to Violeta Parra and Adriana Paredes Pinda in the cultural compost flow” takes into account the
ecological aesthetic proposal of the renowned Chilean poet Nicanor Parra. It is an important
starting point highlighted by the autor, to understand the works of Violeta Parra and Adriana
Pinda. The article: “ O Antagonismo da Entidade-Rio-no Imaginário Construído em Histórias do
Rio Negro de Vera do Val”(The Antagonism of the Imaginary River-entity built on Vera do
Val’s Histories of the Black River) proposes a traditional literary reading about the relationship
between human beings and nature. The narrative of “Natureza e o Som da Montanha de Yasunari
Kawabata” (Nature and sound of Mountain), by Yasunari Kawabata proposes a reading of one of
the most acclaimed Nobel laureate’s novels. In it, categories such as human beings and nature
are represented by factors such as culture and religion as essential motivators that led the reader
to an understanding of the non-Western perspective on the interrelationship between humans and
nature.

Zélia M. Bora