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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 Bartolome 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.
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