Estratos sumergidos y la condición del conocimiento en América Latina

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Gisela Heffes https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2977-0802

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Este artículo rastrea la reciente emergencia de nuevas investigaciones en el campo de las humanidades ambientales, y evalúa dos importantes contribuciones a los debates que están marcando actualmente el rumbo de los estudios culturales en América Latina y el Caribe. En 2019 se publican Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America, de Héctor Hoyos, y Allegories of the Anthropocene, de Elizabeth DeLoughrey. Si bien el alcance de estos dos trabajos varía en términos de las geografías regionales y/o nacionales que abarcan, como así también los autores y artistas que se analizan, ambas investigaciones cuestionan el binomio naturaleza/cultura —junto a otras dicotomías modernas— desde posturas y ángulos diferentes (y quizás hasta opuestos). Mientras Hoyos apela a una desalegorización (es decir, a una «literalización») de un número de obras importantes dentro del canon latinoamericano, DeLoughrey invita a reconsiderar la alegoría como una manera de simbolizar la «disyunción percibida entre los humanos y el planeta, entre nuestra “especie” y una “naturaleza” que es externa y dinámica».

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