Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human

ISBN-13: 9781683401490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 324 str.

Lucy Bollington; Paul Merchant

Spis treści

• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Reworking the Human's Limits — Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant
• Necropolitical Witnessing
• 1. Forensic Fictions: The Ruinous Archive in Post-Testimonial Witnessing — Carlos Fonseca
• 2. Telling Death Stories in Mexican New Media — Liliana Chávez Díaz
• 3. Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñoz — Natalia Aguilar Vásquez
• 4. Displacing Drug War Violence onto Nonhuman Imaginaries: Rereading Juan Pablo Villalobos's Fiesta en la madriguera — Lucy Bollington
• Animal and Plant Entanglements
• 5. Invasive Specie: Rabbits, Conquistadors, and Capital in the Historia de las Indias (1527–1561) by Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484–1566) — Nicole D. Legnani
• 6. "La trama apocalíptica del Antropoceno": Digital-Human-Nature Continua in Pola Oloixarac's Las constelaciones oscuras — Emily Baker
• 7. Communicating Beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism, and Ciro Guerra's El abrazo de la serpiente — Joey Whitfield
• Ecology, Hierarchy, Horizontality
• 8. Tomás Saraceno and the Ethics of the Sublime in the Aerocene — Joanna Page
• 9. Feminine Objects, Gendered Subjects: Lygia Pape's Embodied Aesthetics — Rebecca Kosick
• 10. Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos — Edward King
• 11. Terror and Awe: Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia de la luz (2010) — Niall H. D. Geraghty
• List of Contributors
• Index