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portada Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture
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Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
196
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1.4 cm
Weight
0.46 kg.
ISBN13
9781683404057
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Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture

Micah McKay (Author) · University of Florida Press · Hardcover

Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture - McKay, Micah

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Synopsis "Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture"

The ecological, social, and aestheticfunctions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book looks atthe role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth andtwenty-first centuries and makes the case for foregrounding trash as an objectof analysis in literary and cultural studies in Spanish America and Brazil. Byconsidering how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme, Micah McKay arguesthat garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporarycapitalism. Recognizingtrash as an important social reality, McKay traces its appearance in a diverse rangeof products: novels and documentary films with dumps as settings, short storieswhose main characters are garbage pickers, and works that portray writing as aprocess of piecing together found materials. McKay argues that waste and theproblems it poses are key to understanding marginalization, political struggle, and the production of aesthetic value. Drawingon insights from material ecocriticism, discard studies, and biopolitics, McKaytheorizes that trash opens a space of reflection on what it means to be human, the possibilities for building community amid catastrophe, gendered notions oflabor and care, and the pitfalls of neoliberal environmentalism. McKay shows how trashin literature and film helps readers and viewers contemplate the limits of howwe inhabit the planet. Publication of this work made possible by aSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from theNational Endowment for the Humanities.

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