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<journal-id>2215-2636</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Káñina]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Káñina]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2215-2636</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad de Costa Rica]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2215-26362024000200292</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15517/rk.v48i2.61461</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Diálogos entre botánica y literatura: el caso de Verde bestiario. Microrrelatos vegetales (2023), de Rafael Ángel Herra]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Dialogues between Botany and Literature: The case of Green bestiary. Vegetable micro-stories (2023), by Rafael Ángel Herra]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Huertas Arredondo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Kimberly]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Costa Rica  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San José ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2024</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>48</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>292</fpage>
<lpage>311</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2215-26362024000200292&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2215-26362024000200292&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2215-26362024000200292&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen En este trabajo se reseña el libro Verde bestiario. Microrrelatos vegetales (2023), de Rafael Ángel Herra. Primero, se muestra una síntesis sobre algunos de los elementos formales y discursivos que componen dicha obra. Luego, se ofrece un breve análisis de algunos de los microrrelatos de esta colección para señalar la suerte de convergencia y diálogo con el giro crítico de los estudios culturales acerca de las plantas, así como el pensamiento e inteligencia vegetal. Finalmente, se concluye que este libro contribuye a un renovado interés acerca de la literatura (ficcional) sobre las plantas y el «giro botánico», como respuesta a la necesidad de plantear nuevas narrativas que se atreven a propiciar espacios dialécticos y desafiar la «ceguera vegetal» (Wandersee y Schussler, 1999). Este panorama crítico nos permite defender que este libro es una de las formas no-antropocéntricas de textualización más evocativas, impactantes y conmovedoras que apuntan a revalorizar con frescura e ingenio el pensamiento y la sensibilidad no humana/vegetal, como proyección de la literatura no mimética latinoamericana contemporánea.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This paper reviews the book Green bestiary. Vegetable micro-stories (2023), by Rafael Ángel Herra. First, a synthesis of some of the formal, discursive and thematic elements that make up the work is presented. Then, a brief analysis of some of the micro-stories in this collection is offered to point out the kind of convergence and dialogue with the critical turn of cultural studies about plants, as well as plant thought and intelligence. Finally, it is concluded that this book contributes to a renewed interest in (fictional) literature about plants and the «botanical turn», as a response to the need for new narratives that dare to propitiate dialectical spaces and challenge «plant blindness» (Wandersee and Schussler, 1999). This critical overview allows us to defend that this book is one of the most suggestive, shocking and moving forms of non-anthropocentric textualization that aims to revalue with freshness and ingenuity the non-human/vegetable thought and sensibility, as a projection of contemporary Latin American non-mimetic literature.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[mundo vegetal]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Costa Rican literature]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[dialogues]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Latin American literature]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[plant world]]></kwd>
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