Stories from the Dump: Contemporary Latin American Trash Narratives. McKay, M. D, University of Wisconsin–Madison, & Spanish ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, Ann Arbor, 2017. OCLC: 1237218641![Stories from the Dump: Contemporary Latin American Trash Narratives [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex "Stories from the Dump: Contemporary Latin American Trash Narratives", considers the importance of waste in a series of texts produced since the 1950s in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, and concludes that trash is a key site of critical and aesthetic reflection in contemporary Latin America. Drawing on the insights of material ecocriticism, biopolitics, and cultural geography, this study theorizes that trash and related concepts (waste, disposal, etc.) play an integral part in contemporary reflections on what it means to be human, how urban space is produced, and what constitutes culture itself. As an important part of social reality across Latin America, trash occupies the attention of writers and filmmakers who are attuned to the discursive power it takes on as it flows through different spaces, colliding with and repelling bodies, inhabiting the ambiguous borderland between rigid conceptualizations of nature and culture.\textasciicircum Texts that are attentive to the stories that trash has to tell highlight the material ties that bind together issues that have long been important sites of critical reflection in Latin American literature: the uses and abuses of the environment, marginalization of the Other, and violence. By telling stories that show how these issues are simultaneously discursive and material, the texts and films studied here constitute a series of complex aesthetic interventions that pose urgent questions regarding the nature of culture in contemporary Latin America and the aesthetic and ethical implications of the increasingly notable presence of trash in the region's cultural production.\textasciicircum In its treatment of novels and documentary films that have dumps and landfills as major settings; short stories, documentary films, and cronicas whose main characters are garbage pickers; and novels that portray writing as a process of digging through the trash and piecing together a story from the material found therein, this dissertation shows that the trash in contemporary Latin American literature is a material and discursive presence that calls for serious reflection on the question of what it means to live during the Anthropocene when waste has deeply and irrevocably altered the terms of that habitation.
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