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Visualizing loss in Latin America : biopolitics, waste, and the urban environment / Gisela Heffes ; translated by Grady C. Wray.

9783031288319 electronic book
3031288319 electronic book
9783031288302
3031288300

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

English

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

10.1007/978-3-031-28831-9 doi

PN98.E36 H44 2023

809.9336
860.998

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 suggest that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of wastea significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.

Translated from the Spanish.

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Literatures, cultures, and the environment.

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