Sites of Situated Hope
Amazonian Rhythms, Unruly Caribbean Plants, and Post-Anthropocentric Gazes in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Azucena Castro (0000-0002-1914-7251), Gianfranco Selgas (0000-0002-9977-7711) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 591-612 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2022.2158440 |
| OpenAlex | W4319836496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines the ways in which the cinematic practices of the audiovisual productions Farmacopea (2013) by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (Puerto Rico) and Río Verde (2017) by Diego and Álvaro Sarmiento (Peru) address human-nature assemblages by articulating a post-anthropocentric gaze. Addressing these two movies as neoregional films, this essay discusses how these contemporary audiovisual productions explore the disastrous environmental histories of the tropical plantation in the Caribbean and the extractive exploitation of the Peruvian-Amazon jungle, exhibiting cinematic techniques that disrupt the socially committed tradition of Latin American cinema of the 1960s centred on human communities. Deploying experimental and poetic cinematic techniques, it is argued that these movies feature small matter by foregrounding local poisonous vegetation and corporal takes of humans and animals that register landscapes in disappearance in the face of modern extractive practices. Departing from Santiago Muñoz’s and the Sarmiento brothers’ filmic productions, we discuss how the embedding of Amazonian rhythms and unruly Caribbean plants in their filmic narratives produces sites of situated hope that both reconceptualise Latin American cinema and contest the necro-political violence of the modern extractive machinery
Aesthetics · Anthropocentrism · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ethnology · Foregrounding · Jungle · Latin Americans · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Ecology
How Forests Think
Tierras en trance
Inhospitable World
Earth Beings
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Plant Theory in Amazonian Literature
The Extractive Zone
Geografías afectivas
Contemporary Art of the Hispanophone Caribbean Islands in an Archipelagic Framework
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
Necropolitics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |