{"product_id":"trash-and-limits-in-latin-american-culture-9781683404286","title":"Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe ecological, social, and aesthetic\u003cbr\u003efunctions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book looks at\u003cbr\u003ethe role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and\u003cbr\u003etwenty-first centuries and makes the case for foregrounding trash as an object\u003cbr\u003eof analysis in literary and cultural studies in Spanish America and Brazil. By\u003cbr\u003econsidering how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme, Micah McKay argues\u003cbr\u003ethat garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporary\u003cbr\u003ecapitalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecognizing\u003cbr\u003etrash as an important social reality, McKay traces its appearance in a diverse range\u003cbr\u003eof products: novels and documentary films with dumps as settings, short stories\u003cbr\u003ewhose main characters are garbage pickers, and works that portray writing as a\u003cbr\u003eprocess of piecing together found materials. McKay argues that waste and the\u003cbr\u003eproblems it poses are key to understanding marginalization, political struggle, \u003cbr\u003eand the production of aesthetic value. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing\u003cbr\u003eon insights from material ecocriticism, discard studies, and biopolitics, McKay\u003cbr\u003etheorizes that trash opens a space of reflection on what it means to be human, \u003cbr\u003ethe possibilities for building community amid catastrophe, gendered notions of\u003cbr\u003elabor and care, and the pitfalls of neoliberal environmentalism. McKay shows how trash\u003cbr\u003ein literature and film helps readers and viewers contemplate the limits of how\u003cbr\u003ewe inhabit the planet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublication\u003cbr\u003eof this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American\u003cbr\u003eRescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Florida Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457903497490,"sku":"9781683404286","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_53b1806c-5bbf-49a0-9138-73d39f765a8c.jpg?v=1729945759","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trash-and-limits-in-latin-american-culture-9781683404286","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}