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Index • 195 and, 101; conservation campaigns in Amazon , 65–66; trade with Latin America, 9 Urban crime novels, 14 Urbina, Nicasio, 154 Urtecho, José Coronel, 155 Vanguardists, 155, 162 “Viaje a la narrativa de Luis Sepúlveda” (González), 173n11 Victorian England, 41, 42, 46 Vieira de Mello, Mário, 12 Un viejo que leía novelas de amor (Sepúlveda ), 3, 60, 61, 62, 87–97, 98; conservation ethic in, 95; ending of, 96; flashbacks in, 92; main character as cultural mediator, 123; narrative style of, 92; nature in, 93; plot of, 91; tropical ecology in, 91 Violence, 54, 55; against fur seals, 42, 56; dehumanizing effect of, 43, 49; rape and murder, 55; sexual exploitation, 40, 49 Vogel, Joseph, 95–96, 173nn11, 15 Wallerstein, Immanuel, 170n4 Waslala (Belli), 3, 139, 140–44, 152–64, 176n5; affluent environmentalism in, 159; Cesium scene, 176n8; characters of, 160; crisis of self in, 139; developed world of, 156; ecological distribution conflicts in, 157; ending of, 161–62; environmental justice in, 155–56; first-world environmentalism in, 158; industry response to environmental activism in, 158; language in, 154–55; modernization in, 159; Nicaraguan revolutionary movement memorialized in, 162; place in, 139; plot of, 153; poetic legacy of, 164; strong women in, 160 West Indian people, 174n10 Wilson, Edward O., 175n1 WinklerPrins, Antoinette M.G.A., 173n16 Women: European immigrant women, 40–41; exploitation of, 49; portrayal of bourgeois women in enclosed spaces, 136; sexual exploitation of, 40, 49 Women authors, 13–14 Yahgan-Yámana canoe people, 20 Yámana, John (in Un piano en Bahía Desolaci ón), 48–49 Yámana people, 20, 29, 33–34 Yemanyá, 175n17 Yo (in ¿En quién piensas cuándo haces el amor?), 146, 150 Zermat, Daniela (La loca de Gandoca), 129–30, 132–36, 154, 175n18 Laura Barbas-Rhoden is an associate professor of foreign languages at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is the author of Writing Women in Central America (Ohio University Press, 2003). ...