Yet another innovative and exciting volume that has been recently indexed by Southwest Humanities, Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema, edited by Carolyn Fornoff (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Gisela Heffes (Rice University), consists of fourteen essays that “analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories of posthumanism and ecocriticism.” The first of its kind, this volume “explores how the moving image reinforces or contests the division between human and nonhuman, and troubles the settler epistemic partition of culture and nature that is at the core of the climate crisis.” Exploring the way that Latin American studies frames such questions, Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema is a crucial contribution to the study of environmental destruction, climate change, and the possibilities for envisioning a world that moves “beyond the human.”
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