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Narrative, Nature, Society: The Network of Waste in Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche
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The authors argued that waste not only fulfils a narrative function, but also constitutes what Bruno Latour terms a network, a web of interactions between discursive, natural and social processes.Abstract:
Refuse is a key theme, image and structural device in the Spanish-Argentine writer Andres Neuman’s novel Bariloche (1999), whose protagonist is a waste collector in Buenos Aires. My contention, though, is that waste not only fulfils a narrative function, but in fact constitutes what Bruno Latour terms a ‘network’, a web of interactions between discursive, natural and social processes. Bringing together close literary analysis with insights from environmental criticism (Stacy Alaimo and Jane Bennett) and sociology (Zygmunt Bauman and Martin O’Brien), this paper reveals the complex interactions between the human and non-human world in the novel’s urban setting.read more
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