Introduced by Jens Andermann (Professor, NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese). Respondent: Gisela Heffes (Associate Professor of Latin American literature, Rice University)

Thursday, May 6, 2021, 2:00pm EST
This event will be ONLINE and in ENGLISH
Live stream on facebook.com/kjccnyu/live

In this talk, Sebastián Figueroa explores the perversions of agro-capitalism in Lina Meruane’s Fruta podrida (2007), Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (2014) and Juan Cárdenas’ El diablo de las provincias (2017). He sets his reading of these novels in historical dialogue with the genesis and development of agro-industry in Latin American literature, and link their representation of the vegetal world to contemporary discussions about ecological Marxism, post-humanism, and new materialism. His contention is that these novels show the crisis in the production and reproduction of life under the New Green Revolution as well as the new arrangements of nature and culture in the Anthropocene.

With the support of NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and NYU Department of Spanish and Portuguese