ID - 131911222 TI - Visualizing Loss in Latin America AU - Heffes, Gisela AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2023 SN - 9783031288319 9783031288302 9783031288326 9783031288333 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Literature KW - Regional documentation KW - History KW - etnologie KW - cultuur KW - geschiedenis KW - literatuur KW - steden KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Caribbean area KW - Latin America KW - Ecocriticism. KW - Latin American literature. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Culture KW - Ethnology KW - Culture. KW - Cities and towns KW - Latin American/Caribbean Literature. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Visual Culture. KW - Latin American Culture. KW - Urban History. KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Latin America. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131911222 AB - 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 that overwhelmingly defines it. ER -