Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics (De Gruyter Handbook) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110775875 ISBN 13: 9783110775877

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2023

Synopsis

The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large.

By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

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About the Author

Jens Andermann and Gabriel Giorgi, New York University, USA; Victoria Saramago, University of Chicago, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110775875
• ISBN 13: 9783110775877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Andermann Jens, Giorgi Gabriel, Saramago Victoria