Trash and Limits in Latin American Culture

This book looks at the role of waste in Latin American cultural texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Micah McKay considers how writers and filmmakers engage with the theme and argues that garbage illuminates key limits related to the region's experience with contemporary capitalism.

About the author

Micah McKay, assistant
professor of Spanish at the University of Alabama, is coeditor of Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time:
The Luso-Hispanic World.

Product details

• Authors: Micah McKay
• Publisher: University of Florida Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2024
• EAN: 9781683404057
• ISBN: 978-1-68340-405-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies