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Basura : cultures of waste in contemporary Spain / Samuel Amago.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Under the sign of naturePublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813945933
  • 9780813945934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: BasuraDDC classification:
  • 363.72/80946 23
LOC classification:
  • HD4485.S7 A43 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Waste, theory, method -- Pedro Almodóvar's modern projections -- Trash, culture, and democracy in contemporary Madrid -- Junkspace photography -- Archaeological fiction -- Comics perspectives on Spanish crisis -- Words and the wasting self in Rosa Montero's fiction -- Conclusion: Two plastic things.
Summary: "An exploration of how Spanish culture has engaged with the debris it has created and cast aside, this book reveals the problematic, ever evolving process of discarding and, inevitably, of recovering meaning and value in contemporary Spain"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Waste, theory, method -- Pedro Almodóvar's modern projections -- Trash, culture, and democracy in contemporary Madrid -- Junkspace photography -- Archaeological fiction -- Comics perspectives on Spanish crisis -- Words and the wasting self in Rosa Montero's fiction -- Conclusion: Two plastic things.

"An exploration of how Spanish culture has engaged with the debris it has created and cast aside, this book reveals the problematic, ever evolving process of discarding and, inevitably, of recovering meaning and value in contemporary Spain"-- Provided by publisher.

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