Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture (McKay Micah)(Paperback) - diskuze
Výrobce: University Press of Florida
EAN: 9781683404286
Výrobní číslo: 9781683404286
The ecological, social, and aesthetic
functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book looks at
the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries and makes the case for foregrounding trash as an object
of analysis in literary and cultural studies in Spanish America and Brazil. By
considering how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme, Micah McKay argues
that garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporary
capitalism. Recognizing
trash as an important social reality, McKay traces its appearance in a diverse range
of products: novels and documentary films with dumps as settings, short stories
whose main characters are garbage pickers, and works that portray writing as a
process of piecing together found
functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico This book looks at
the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries and makes the case for foregrounding trash as an object
of analysis in literary and cultural studies in Spanish America and Brazil. By
considering how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme, Micah McKay argues
that garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporary
capitalism. Recognizing
trash as an important social reality, McKay traces its appearance in a diverse range
of products: novels and documentary films with dumps as settings, short stories
whose main characters are garbage pickers, and works that portray writing as a
process of piecing together found
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