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Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment

Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment

Heffes, Gisela
Wray, Grady C.

Hardcover

Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031288300
ISBN13: 9783031288302
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 20 2023
Pages: 269
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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