Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Post-anthropocentric Brazil -- Multiple natures, multinaturalisms. Nature as nation / Lilia Schwarcz -- 'Filhos do mesmo solo': Euclides da Cunha's environmental imagination / Rex Nielson -- Capital, bodies, and the environment in Alberto Rangel's stories / Javier Uriarte -- Cannibal politics: from the anthropophagic to the anthropoemic / Raúl Antelo -- The pluriversed landscapes of Josely Vianna Baptista: from ecopoetry to environmental humanities / Malcolm McNee -- Anthropoethnocentrism and the animal gaze. A pale shade of violet: animals and race in Machado de Assis / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- Shared life: the zoopoetics of Carlos Drummond de Andrade / Maria Esther Maciel -- The nature and/of the animal: the environment and the world in the work of João Guimarães Rosa / Ettore Finazzi-Agrò -- Listening to the jaguar and the tapir: an outline of a wild pedagogy / Sérgio Medeiros -- Food ethics in the work of Astrid Cabral / Patrícia Vieira -- Present crises and the Anthropocene. The future as a necessity: reading Clarice Lispector in the Anthropocene / Bruno Carvalho -- The poetry of garbage in contemporary Brazilian culture / Odile Cisneros -- False gifts and epidemic fumes: extractivism's traces and cosmopolitical resistances in Davi Kopenawa Yanomami's The falling sky / Mark Anderson -- Thinking with your head on Earth / Ailton Krenak (curated by Jamille Pinheiro Dias).

"How can Clarice Lispector's writings helps us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental degradation and the production of knowledge? Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human. This volume includes fifteen chapters by leading scholars covering two centuries of Brazilian literary production, from Gonçalves Dias to Astrid Cabral, from Euclides da Cunha do Davi Kopenawa, and others. By underscoring the vast theoretical potential of Brazilian literature and thought, from the influential Modernist thesis of "cultural cannibalism" (antropofagia) to the renewed interest in Amerindian perspectivism in cultural, Post-Anthropocentric Brazil shows how the theoretical strength of Brazilian thought can contribute to contemporary debates in the anglophone realm"--