Latin American culture and the limits of the human / edited by Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bollington, Lucy, editor.

Merchant, Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Latin America.

Art and society.

Literature and society--Latin America.

Literature and society.

Latin America--Civilization.

Latin America.

Arts, Latin American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 312 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This volume explores works from Latin American literary and visual culture that question what it means to be human and how the nonhuman world helps define personhood. In doing so, it provides new perspectives on how the region challenges and adds to global conversations about humanism and the posthuman"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Reworking the Human's Limits / Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant

Necropolitical Witnessing

Forensic Fictions: The Ruinous Archive in Post-Testimonial Witnessing / Carlos Fonseca

Telling Death-Stories in Mexican New Media / Liliana Chávez Díaz

Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz / Natalia Aguilar Vasquez

Displacing Drug War Violence onto Nonhuman Imaginaries: Rereading Juan Pablo Villalobos? Fiesta en la madriguera / Lucy Bollington

Animal and Plant Entanglements

Invasive Specie: Rabbits, Conquistadors and Capital in the Historia de las Indias (1527-61) by Bartolom de las Casas (1484-1566) / Nicole D. Legnani

"La trama apocalíptica del Antropoceno": Digital-Human-Nature Continua in Pola Oloixarac's Las constelaciones oscuras / Emily Baker

Communicating Beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism and Ciro Guerra's El abrazo de la serpiente / Joey Whitfield

Ecology, Hierarchy, Horizontality

Tomás Saraceno and the Ethics of the Sublime in the Aerocene / Joanna Page

Feminist Objects, Gendered Subjects: Lygia Pape's Embodied Aesthetics / Rebecca Kosick

Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos / Edward King

Terror and Awe: Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia de la luz (2010) / Niall H.D. Geraghty

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-216-2

1-68340-177-8

9781683401773

OCLC:

1121444166