Welcome to this guest lecture with Ximena Briceño, lecturer of Latin American literature and culture at Stanford University.
Lecture
Date
12 Dec 2024
Time
15:15 - 17:00
Location
Room C442, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6
Participants
Ximena Briceño, PhD, Standford University
Good to know
The seminar will be held in English
Organizer
Department of Languages and Literatures
Understanding Metabolic Capitalism in Peru: Metaphors of Development
The talk explores metabolic dynamics in Peruvian literature of the first half of the 20th century in connection with contemporary eco-marxist critiques of energy. Concentrating on a selection of César Vallejo’s guano poems in Trilce (1922) and José María Arguedas novel of the fishmeal boom El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo (1971), the paper asks how do synecdochic and synthetic operations in this literature help us appreciate the politics of knowledge that constructs the erasure and permanence of guano as a global commodity? Can a trans-species perspective illuminate valorization in the metabolic flux of guano?
