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This survey of Latin American literature and culture introduces students to a mixture of canonical and lesser-known works with a focus on the environment. We will explore a wide variety of ecocultural texts from Latin America, ranging from accounts of Europeans’ first arrival to the foundation of the Nation-States, followed by neoliberalism, globalization and the crisis of mass extinction and anthropogenic climate change today. Through the reading of a significant mix of styles and genres––including poetry, essays, prose fiction and speeches–– we will map out connections between environmental thought and the region’s long and multi-layered history of colonialism. Some questions we will address are what these texts teach us about the relationship between nature and human beings, and how does climate science and scientific evidence reproduce (pos)colonial relations of power? This class is taught in Spanish.