Marina Bedran: July 2023 Scholar of the Month
ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for July 2023 is Marina Bedran.
Marina Bedran is Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures at Johns Hopkins University. She works on Brazilian literature and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing exchanges between Latin America and the Lusophone world. She is currently working on a book manuscript that discusses experimental media-based art and writing since the postwar period that, by turning to Amazonia, generated ways of thinking about the environment, development, and indigeneity that anticipate ...
VISUALIZING LOSS IN LATIN AMERICA. BIOPOLITICS, WASTE, AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
By Gisela Heffes. Palgrave, 2023.
Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin ...