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Post-Naturalist Fictions

Post-Naturalist Fictions
Date
Mon May 11th 2020, 5:00pm
Location
Zoom meeting

On听Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00pm, doctoral candidates Daniel Hern谩ndez (ILAC, 黑料百科) and Sebasti谩n Figueroa (Hispanic and Portuguese Studies, UPenn) will be discussing their research in progress and leading our discussion on the theme of听Post-Naturalist Fictions: Representations of Capital and Forest in Colombia and Brazil.

Presenters have kindly shared the following descriptions of their talks:
Daniel Hern谩ndez (黑料百科), 鈥淢谩rio de Andrade, Apprentice Ethnographer: Redrawing Fiction by Means of a Kodak鈥

I examine M谩rio de Andrade鈥檚 travelogue听O turista aprendiz听and its cognate photographic archive within a broader trove of visual and ethnographic materials from the Amazon. De Andrade鈥檚 1927 Amazon expedition was key for transforming his subsequent fiction writing 鈥損articularly his novel听Macuna铆ma听(1928). I argue that the Kodak camera provided him with new ways to perceive the Amazonian world, beyond the more traditional naturalist model. These new perspectives oriented him to reflect about his own position as a modern metropolitan author and to redraw the limits between fact and fiction within both his narrative and ethnographic work.

Sebasti谩n Figueroa (UPenn), 鈥淭he Return of the Plantation鈥
I discuss the return of the plantation form in some contemporary Latin American novels as a result of the expansion of monocrop agribusiness, whose appropriation of land and agricultural production, as Vandana Shiva maintains, entails the appropriation of life by capital. Focusing particularly on Juan C谩rdenas鈥櫶鼸l diablo de las provincias听(2017), I analyze the role of conspiracy narratives to understand how the plantation is a violent machine that brings about the material, the social, and the political to take over the world and preclude any future other than that of the capitalist regime.

As mentioned above, the meeting will take place next Monday, May 11, 2020 at 5:00pm (via Zoom).

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For more information, please email rwain [at] stanford.edu (rwain[at]stanford[dot]edu).

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