Visualizing Loss in Latin America

Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-28833-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait thatoverwhelmingly defines it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heffes, Gisela

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wray, Grady C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction.- 2: Destruction: The Garbage Dump as Global Biopolitical Trope.- 3: Sustainability: Waste and its Social, Cultural, and Aesthetic Re-significations.- 4: Preservation: Nature and Urbanism.- 5: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Gisela Heffes is Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Rice University, USA, as well as a writer, ecocritic, and public intellectual with a particular focus on literature, media, and the environment in Latin America. Her research interest focuses on topics such as city and rural spatialities, utopias, environmental narratives, displacement and migration. She is co-editor of the Palgrave book series Literatures, Cultures and the Environment.