03828nam 22007935 450 991072627620332120230810181512.09783031288319(electronic bk.)978303128830210.1007/978-3-031-28831-9(MiAaPQ)EBC30546719(Au-PeEL)EBL30546719(OCoLC)1380465025(DE-He213)978-3-031-28831-9(BIP)088809019(EXLCZ)992672706900004120230519d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVisualizing Loss in Latin America[electronic resource] Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment /by Gisela Heffes1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2023.1 online resource (284 pages)Literatures, Cultures, and the EnvironmentPrint version: Heffes, Gisela Visualizing Loss in Latin America Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031288302 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.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 that overwhelmingly defines it.Literatures, Cultures, and the EnvironmentEcocriticismLatin American literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryCultureStudy and teachingEthnologyLatin AmericaCultureCities and townsHistoryEcocriticismLatin American/Caribbean LiteratureContemporary LiteratureVisual CultureLatin American CultureUrban HistoryLiteratureEcocriticism.Latin American literature.Literature, Modern20th century.Literature, Modern21st century.CultureStudy and teaching.EthnologyLatin America.Culture.Cities and townsHistory.Ecocriticism.Latin American/Caribbean Literature.Contemporary Literature.Visual Culture.Latin American Culture.Urban History.860.998Heffes Gisela1359498Wray Grady C1359499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910726276203321Visualizing Loss in Latin America3373989UNINA