Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human

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Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781683401490
  • DDC分類 980

Full Description

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 Bartolomé 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.

Contents

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