Visualizing Loss in Latin America

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual,and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguingthat Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism asa theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucialquestion: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to addressissues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributessubstantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of LatinAmerica? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes abiopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature thatoperates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffessuggests that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeatedwith a rhetoric of waste-a significant trait thatoverwhelmingly defines it.