ISBN: 9783031288302 - visualizing loss in latin america: biopolitics, waste, and the urban environment (literatures, cultures, and the environment) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual,and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguingthat Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism asa theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucialquestion: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to addressissues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributessubstantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of LatinAmerica The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes abiopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature thatoperates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffessuggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeatedwith a rhetoric of waste-a significant trait thatoverwhelmingly defines it.…

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 288 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | 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 suggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste¿a significant trait thatoverwhelmingly defines it.…

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