Välkomna till denna gästföreläsning med Ximena Briceño, lektor i latinamerikansk litteratur och kultur vid Stanfords universitet.
Föreläsning
Datum
12 dec 2024
Tid
15:15 - 17:00
Plats
Sal C442, Humanisten, Renströmsgatan 6
Medverkande
Ximena Briceño, PhD, Standfords universitet
Bra att veta
Seminariet hålls på engelska
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?
