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Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of
textual, visual, and cultural material with specific
intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin
American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism
as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses
the following crucial question: How do we construct a
conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value,
meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that
contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that
is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention
to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical,
ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature
that operates at the intersection of the built environment
and urban settings. Heffes suggest that the aesthetic praxis
that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a
rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines
it.
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Ischia (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes; Translated by Grady Wray
bundle available
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R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who,
along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different
cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something they don't
know and seems unfathomable. An intricate, gutsy, and raw novel,
Ischia is populated with outsiders who navigate the vicissitudes of
life in Argentina and the world. Ischia, the first-person female
narrator, is the youngest in a family of seven brothers and relates
her experiences as she waits for a ride to the Argentine
international airport. Told through the dizzying
would-have-could-have of conditionals, Ischia overlaps the past,
present, and future of three young characters defined by lack of
certainty or expectations. These three lives unfold between
disenchantment and humor, and the narration transports the readers
into a universe of memories, desires, and dreams. The novel
advances lyrically through themes both solemn and lighthearted,
shaping the contours of imaginaries, hilarious, and sometimes even
surreal experiences.
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
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