Latin American Culture And The Limits Of The Human
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Latin American Culture And The Limits Of The Human
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Author : Lucy Bollington
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2020-03-18
Latin American Culture And The Limits Of The Human written by Lucy Bollington and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-18 with History categories.
This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and examine the ways humans and nonhumans shape one another. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman. Contributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in Historia de las Indias by Spanish historian Bartolomé de las Casas, photography depicting desert landscapes at the site of Brazil’s War of Canudos, and digital and installation art portraying victims of state-sponsored and drug violence in Colombia and Mexico. The essays illuminate how these cultural texts broach the limits between life and death, human and animal, technology and the body, and people and the environment. They also show that these works use the category of the human to address issues related to race, gender, inequality, necropolitics, human rights, and the role of the environment. Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human demonstrates that by focusing on the boundary between the human and nonhuman, writers, artists, and scholars can open up new dimensions to debates about identity and difference, the local and the global, and colonialism and power. Contributors: Natalia Aguilar Vásquez | Emily Baker | Lucy Bollington | Liliana Chávez Díaz | Carlos Fonseca | Niall H.D. Geraghty | Edward King | Rebecca Kosick | Nicole Delia Legnani | Paul Merchant | Joanna Page | Joey Whitfield
Liberalism At Its Limits
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Author : Ileana Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2009
Liberalism At Its Limits written by Ileana Rodríguez and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
Looks to the criminality and violence of Latin America to assess the discord between liberalism in theory and practice, and thus how liberalism might be exhausted in relation to local conditions not reconcilable to its core tenants.
Science Fusion In Contemporary Mexican Literature
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Author : Brian T. Chandler
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-29
Science Fusion In Contemporary Mexican Literature written by Brian T. Chandler and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.
Handbook Of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
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Author : Jens Andermann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-09-04
Handbook Of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics written by Jens Andermann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.
The Latin American Short Story At Its Limits
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Author : Lucy Bell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014
The Latin American Short Story At Its Limits written by Lucy Bell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Latin American Short Story: Between Tradition and Modernity -- 1 Juan Rulfo, the Transculturator -- 2 Julio Cortázar, the World-Opener -- 3 Augusto Monterroso, the Microwriter -- Conclusion: Looking Forward: After-lives, Adaptations and Legacies -- Bibliography -- Index
The Limits Of Identity
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Author : Charles Hatfield
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-11-15
The Limits Of Identity written by Charles Hatfield and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Limits of Identity is a polemical critique of the repudiation of universalism and the theoretical commitment to identity and difference embedded in Latin American literary and cultural studies. Through original readings of foundational Latin American thinkers (such as José Martí and José Enrique Rodó) and contemporary theorists (such as John Beverley and Doris Sommer), Charles Hatfield reveals and challenges the anti-universalism that informs seemingly disparate theoretical projects. The Limits of Identity offers a critical reexamination of widely held conceptions of culture, ideology, interpretation, and history. The repudiation of universalism, Hatfield argues, creates a set of problems that are both theoretical and political. Even though the recognition of identity and difference is normally thought to be a form of resistance, The Limits of Identity claims that, in fact, the opposite is true.
Perspectives On Las Am Ricas
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Author : Mathew C. Gutmann
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Perspectives On Las Am Ricas written by Mathew C. Gutmann and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Social Science categories.
Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ and the ‘United States’. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies. Brings together key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas. Charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of 'Latin America' and the 'United States'. Challenges the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies as approached by anthropologists, historians, and other scholars. Offers instructors, students, and interested readers both the theoretical tools and case studies necessary to rethink transnational realities and identities.
New Approaches To Latin American Studies
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Author : Juan Poblete
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-13
New Approaches To Latin American Studies written by Juan Poblete and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Academic and research fields are moved by fads, waves, revolutionaries, paradigm shifts, and turns. They all imply a certain degree of change that alters the conditions of a stable system, producing an imbalance that needs to be addressed by the field itself. New Approaches to Latin American Studies: Culture and Power offers researchers and students from different theoretical fields an essential, turn-organized overview of the radical transformation of epistemological and methodological assumptions in Latin American Studies from the end of the 1980s to the present. Sixteen chapters written by experts in their respective fields help explain the various ways in which to think about these shifts. Questions posited include: Why are turns so crucial? How did they alter the shape or direction of the field? What new questions, objects, or problems did they contribute? What were or are their limitations? What did they displace or prevent us from considering? Among the turns included are: memory, transnational, popular culture, decolonial, feminism, affect, indigenous studies, transatlantic, ethical, post/hegemony, deconstruction, cultural policy, subalternism, gender and sexuality, performance, and cultural studies.
Posthumanism And Latin X American Science Fiction
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Author : Antonio Córdoba
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-23
Posthumanism And Latin X American Science Fiction written by Antonio Córdoba and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.
Trash And Limits In Latin American Culture
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Author : Micah McKay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Trash And Limits In Latin American Culture written by Micah McKay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with categories.
This book looks at the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Micah McKay considers how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme and argues that garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporary capitalism.