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Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste

Zubiaurre, Maite

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 0826522289
ISBN13: 9780826522283
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2019
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to litter, the small trash that soils the urban pavement, like the bits of chewing gum that some artists decorate. Talking Trash looks at refuse in its early stages, when it is still tiny and unassuming, still lives in the city, and has yet to grow, leave the metropolis, and accumulate in landfills.

The chapters of Talking Trash reflect upon the anthropomorphic nature of urban refuse; upon the poetics and semantics of micro-litterscapes and the archives of all things discarded; upon Dumpsterology, or the history of the garbage container as a gendered artifact dense with cultural meaning; and upon dirty innocence, or the complex and contradictory link that ties childhood to muck.

The author also focuses on one significant non-urban scene, the desert landscape and the clothing and other items that immigrants discard as they make a desperate trek across the border.

This book is the recipient of the 2020 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.

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