Planet Earth Strikes Back: Landscapes of Toxicity in Latin American Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 022-033
Author(s):  
Leila Lehnen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Latin American Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature ◽  
Production Of Nature ◽  
Bio Engineering

This essay discusses how contemporary Latin American literature (Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia) employs the discourse of toxicity—condensed in the metaphor of bio-engineering and mutation—to process and interrogate what Jason Moore has called the “Capitolecene.” Moore proposes to understand the “accumulation of capital, the pursuit of power, and the co-production of nature in dialectical unity.” This essay considers how the co-production of nature, impelled by greed (a recurring allegory of capitalism) goes terribly wrong by generating toxic biomes. As such, these texts function as ecocritical allegories of the Capitolecene (specifically in its iteration as biocapitalism) and its human and environmental consequences.

scholarly journals Pós-modernidade e pós-colonialidade na literatura latino-americana: o trágico na Crônica de uma morte anunciada, de Gabriel García Márquez

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Fatima Sabrina Rosa ◽  
Barbara Rosa
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gabriel Garcia Marquez ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Latin American Fiction ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este ensaio tem por objetivo utilizar perspectivas discutidas em torno das teorias pós-modernas e pós-coloniais como aporte para estabelecer aproximações com a literatura latino-americana, especificamente, com a obra Crônica de uma morte anunciada, do colombiano Gabriel García Márquez. Essa proposta de aproximação surge da impressão causada pela obra no leitor, denotando traços do que poderia ser visto como uma perspectiva pós-moderna e pós-colonial sobre a história e sobre a própria escrita literária. Esses caminhos da questão “pós” podem ser percebidos em uma sensibilidade trágica, que alinha o texto aos debates pós-modernos, bem como na forma como o autor hibridiza a narrativa ao colocar na mesma “persona”, narrador, personagem e autor. As chamadas “histórias menores”, isto é, discussões acerca de temas importantes da crítica pós-colonial também estão presentes, em referências tangenciais à raça, territorialidade e gênero. Além dessas circunscrições mais visíveis sobre o “pós” na estrutura da crônica, este texto é uma tentativa de decodificar alguns símbolos utilizados pelo autor para ressignificar e deslocar certos pontos fixos da ficção e da história latino-americana.Palavras-chave: literatura latino-americana; trágico; pós-modernidade e pós-colonialidade.Abstract: This essay aims to use perspectives discussed on postmodern and postcolonial theories as a contribution to establish approximations with the Latin American literature, specifically with the Chronicle of a Death Foretold by the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. This proposal of approximation arises from the impression that the García Márquez’ work provokes in the reader, denoting traces of what could be seen as a postmodern and postcolonial perspective on history and on literary writing itself. These paths of the “post” theory can be perceived in a tragic sensibility, which aligns the text to postmodern debates, as well as in the way the author hybridizes the narrative by placing the narrator, character and author in the same person. Also present in the book are the so-called “minor stories,” that is, discussions about the central postcolonial critique matters, such as issues about race, territoriality, and gender. In addition to these more visible circumscriptions about the “post” in the structure of the Chronicle, this text is an attempt to decode some symbols used by the author to resignify and dislocate certain fixed points of Latin American fiction and history.Keywords: Latin American literature; tragic; post-modernity and post-coloniality.

scholarly journals The late 19th century archive in contemporary Latin American literature

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Irina Garbatzky ◽  
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Julieta Viú Adagio ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature

Late 20th and early 21st century Latin American literature rereads and problematizes late 19th-century Latin American Modernism. This article examines some of these genealogies in order to analyze the significance of this literary dialogue in our present time.

Voluntary Exiles, New Identities, and the Emergence of a Postnational Sensibility in Contemporary Latin American Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Brignole
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Transition Point ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Interstitial Position ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature ◽  
New Generation

Brignole explores the question of postnational identity by proposing a reading of three novels that signal a transition point in the literature of exile and displacement in Latin America. The characters portrayed in El síndrome de Ulises (2005) by Santiago Gamboa, Travesuras de la niña mala(2006) by Mario Vargas Llosa, and El exilio voluntario (2009) by Claudio Ferrufino-Coqueugniot are the fictional counterparts of a new generation of voluntary exiles that has started to replace, in diachronic progression, the traditional figures of leftist revolutionaries and political exiles. The typical voluntary exile is not fixated on an attempt to recover a lost identity, like the traditional exile, nor does he attempt to assimilate into the cultural make-up of the new countries he inhabits, like the immigrant. Instead, he remains in an indefinite state of “foreignness” by adopting an interstitial position, located somewhere between those of the exile and the immigrant. Instead of assigning unwarranted importance to a nation, an ideology, or a race, the protagonists of these novels project a new postnational sensibility. They emphasize the shared experience of all exiles, draw attention to the futility of borders, and forge productive fraternal bonds with individuals coming from different cultural heritages.

scholarly journals Error de cálculo. Vida y enfermedad en la literatura latinoamericana / Miscalculation. Life and illness in Latin American literature

2017 ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Cecilia Sánchez Idiart
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Diamela Eltit ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Literatura Latinoamericana ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature ◽  
New Apparatus ◽  
Capital Humano

Resumen: A partir de una pregunta por las enfermedades y desórdenes de los cuerpos y los saberes sobre la vida, las novelas A céu aberto (1996) de João Gilberto Noll, Impuesto a la carne (2010) de Diamela Eltit y Fruta podrida (2007) de Lina Meruane exploran las transformaciones que atraviesan las antiguas instituciones disciplinarias bajo las condiciones de un nuevo dispositivo de poder que aspira a la gestión de la población como capital humano. Contra cualquier imperativo de eficiencia, las novelas hallan en la enfermedad la potencia de invención de lenguajes y modos de vida común que exceden los cálculos del Estado y el mercado. Palabras clave: Biopolítica, enfermedad, afecto, lo común, literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Abstract: Through the interrogation of illness and knowledges about life, the novels A céu aberto (1996) by João Gilberto Noll, Impuesto a la carne (2010) by Diamela Eltit and Fruta podrida (2007) by Lina Meruane explore the transformations undergone by former disciplinary institutions under the conditions of a new apparatus of power which aspires to manage the population as human capital. Against any imperative of efficiency, these novels find in illness the potential of invention of languages and modes of common life that exceed the calculations of the state and the market. Keywords: Biopolitics, illness, affect, the common, contemporary Latin American literature.

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