Limón’s Costa Rica of Color, Species and Land: A First Vegan Ecofeminist Queer Ecological Reading of Rossi’s Limón Reggae and Lobo’s Calypso

Abstract

This essay applies a vegan ecofeminist queer ecological methodology to a comparative reading of two novels by Costa Rican authors, Limón Reggae (2007) by Anacristina Rossi, and Calypso (1996) by Tatiana Lobo. This approach focuses on the exercise of highlighting the nonhuman, which is urgent in a planetary context that demands that literary criticism explicitly address the numerous interconnections between literature and “nature”. In the novels, the province of Limón exuberantly exceeds the obsolete category of “setting” and becomes key in de-centering the human and queering the diverse and deep complexities of its varied biocultural ecosystems.