{"product_id":"latin-american-culture-and-the-limits-of-the-human-hardcover","title":"Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucy Bollington\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePaul Merchant\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. Contributors 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. \u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Natalia Aguilar Vásquez Emily Baker Lucy Bollington Liliana Chávez Díaz Carlos Fonseca Niall H.D. Geraghty Edward King Rebecca Kosick Nicole Delia Legnani Paul Merchant Joanna Page Joey Whitfield\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Bollington\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in comparative literature, film, and cultural studies at University College London. \u003cb\u003ePaul Merchant\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in Latin American film and visual culture at the University of Bristol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851507351800,"sku":"9781683401490","price":133.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/fUQFq5y42A9781683401490.webp?v=1783462035","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/latin-american-culture-and-the-limits-of-the-human-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}