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Author Amago, Samuel, 1974- author.

Title Basura : cultures of waste in contemporary Spain / Samuel Amago
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : color illustrations
Series Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
Contents Introduction: Waste, theory, method -- Pedro Almodóvar's modern projections -- Trash, culture, and democracy in contemporary Madrid -- Junkspace photography -- Archaeological fiction -- Comics perspectives on Spanish crisis -- Words and the wasting self in Rosa Montero's fiction -- Conclusion: Two plastic things
Summary "An exploration of how Spanish culture has engaged with the debris it has created and cast aside, this book reveals the problematic, ever evolving process of discarding and, inevitably, of recovering meaning and value in contemporary Spain"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2021)
Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Spain
Refuse and refuse disposal in art.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature
Civilization
Ecology
Refuse and refuse disposal in art
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects
Afvalstoffen
Sociale aspecten
SUBJECT Spain -- Environmental conditions
Spain -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126037
Subject Spain
Spanje
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021001500
ISBN 0813945933
9780813945934