{"product_id":"latin-american-culture-and-the-limits-of-the-human-hardback-9781683401490","title":"Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (Hardback) 9781683401490","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLatin American Culture and the Limits of the Human\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLucy Bollington (Edited by), Paul Merchant (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781683401490\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 15 black \u0026amp; white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.333 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors identify posthumanist themes across a range of different materials, including an anecdote about a plague of rabbits in \u003ci\u003eHistoria de las Indias\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003eLatin American Culture and the Limits of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Reworking the Human'\u003cbr\u003es Limits —\u003cbr\u003e Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNecropolitical Witnessing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Forensic Fictions: The Ruinous Archive in Post-Testimonial Witnessing —\u003cbr\u003e Carlos Fonseca\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Telling Death Stories in Mexican New Media —\u003cbr\u003e Liliana Chá\u003cbr\u003evez Dí\u003cbr\u003eaz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Permeable Bodies: Reading Materiality in Teresa Margolles and Oscar Muñ\u003cbr\u003eoz —\u003cbr\u003e Natalia Aguilar Vá\u003cbr\u003esquez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Displacing Drug War Violence onto Nonhuman Imaginaries: Rereading Juan Pablo Villalobos'\u003cbr\u003es Fiesta en la madriguera —\u003cbr\u003e Lucy Bollington\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnimal and Plant Entanglements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Invasive Specie: Rabbits, Conquistadors, and Capital in the Historia de las Indias (1527–\u003cbr\u003e1561) by Bartolomé\u003cbr\u003e de Las Casas (1484–\u003cbr\u003e1566) —\u003cbr\u003e Nicole D. Legnani\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. \"La trama apocalí\u003cbr\u003eptica del Antropoceno\": Digital-Human-Nature Continua in Pola Oloixarac'\u003cbr\u003es Las constelaciones oscuras —\u003cbr\u003e Emily Baker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Communicating Beyond the Human: Posthumanism, Neo-Shamanism, and Ciro Guerra'\u003cbr\u003es El abrazo de la serpiente —\u003cbr\u003e Joey Whitfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEcology, Hierarchy, Horizontality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Tomá\u003cbr\u003es Saraceno and the Ethics of the Sublime in the Aerocene —\u003cbr\u003e Joanna Page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Feminine Objects, Gendered Subjects: Lygia Pape'\u003cbr\u003es Embodied Aesthetics —\u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Kosick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos —\u003cbr\u003e Edward King\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Terror and Awe: Toward a Posthuman Politics in Patricio Guzmá\u003cbr\u003en'\u003cbr\u003es Nostalgia de la luz (2010) —\u003cbr\u003e Niall H. D. Geraghty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633794314520,"sku":"9781683401490","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/latin-american-culture-and-the-limits-of-the-human-hardback-9781683401490","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}