Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (eBook)

Lucy Bollington, Paul Merchant (Herausgeber)

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2020
324 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
9781683401773 (ISBN)

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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.

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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

Autor

Lucy Bollington is lecturer in comparative literature, film, and cultural studies at University College London. Paul Merchant is lecturer in Latin American film and visual culture at the University of Bristol.

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Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Reworking the Human’s Limits

Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant

Necropolitical Witnessing

1.Forensic Fictions: The Ruinous Archive in Post-Testimonial Witnessing

Carlos Fonseca

2.Telling Death Stories in Mexican New Media

Liliana Chávez Díaz

3.Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz

Natalia Aguilar Vásquez

4.Displacing Drug War Violence onto Nonhuman Imaginaries: Rereading Juan Pablo Villalobos’s Fiesta en la madriguera

Lucy Bollington

Animal and Plant Entanglements

5.Invasive Specie: Rabbits, Conquistadors, and Capital in the Historia de las Indias (1527–1561) by Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566)

Nicole D. Legnani

6.“La trama apocalíptica del Antropoceno”: Digital-Human-Nature Continua in Pola Oloixarac’s Las constelaciones oscuras

Emily Baker

7.Communicating Beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism, and Ciro Guerra’s El abrazo de la serpiente

Joey Whitfield

Ecology, Hierarchy, Horizontality

8.Tomás Saraceno and the Ethics of the Sublime in the Aerocene

Joanna Page

9.Feminine Objects, Gendered Subjects: Lygia Pape’s Embodied Aesthetics

Rebecca Kosick

10.Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos

Edward King

11.Terror and Awe: Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

Niall H. D. Geraghty

List of Contributors

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.3.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Archive • Catastrophe • Cultural Production • Decolonial • Digital Narratives • Ecology • Environmental Humanities • Forensic • History • Installation Art • Latin America • Latin American culture • Latin American visual culture • Literature • Mexican Culture • Necropolitics • New Materialism • New Media • Postcolinial • posthumanism • posthuman theory • Ruins • Storytelling • Testimonio • Violence • Visual Culture
• ISBN-13: 9781683401773 / 9781683401773