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Basura : cultures of waste in contemporary Spain / Samuel Amago.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amago, Samuel, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--Spain.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "An exploration of how Spanish culture has engaged with the debris it has created and cast aside, this book reveals the problematic, ever evolving process of discarding and, inevitably, of recovering meaning and value in contemporary Spain"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Waste, theory, method
- Pedro Almodóvar's modern projections
- Trash, culture, and democracy in contemporary Madrid
- Junkspace photography
- Archaeological fiction
- Comics perspectives on Spanish crisis
- Words and the wasting self in Rosa Montero's fiction
- Conclusion: Two plastic things.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8139-4593-3
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