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Author Amago, Samuel, 1974- author.

Title Basura : cultures of waste in contemporary Spain / Samuel Amago.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : color illustrations.
text file
Series Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism
Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects -- Spain.
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects.
Spain.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Refuse and refuse disposal in art.
Refuse and refuse disposal in art.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
Refuse and refuse disposal in motion pictures.
Spain -- Environmental conditions.
Environmental conditions.
Spain -- Civilization.
Civilization.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature.
Ecology.
Afvalstoffen.
Sociale aspecten.
Spanje.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Amago, Samuel, 1974- Basura Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021. 9780813945910 (DLC) 2021001499
ISBN 0813945933 electronic book
9780813945934 (electronic book)
9780813945910 hardcover
9780813945927 paperback