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T1 Waste and Textual Expenditure in William T. Vollmann’s Imperial
T2 Desechos y derroche textual en Imperial de William T. Vollmann
A1 Liste, José
K1 William T. Vollmann
K1 William T. Vollmann
K1 waste
K1 textuality
K1 imperialism
K1 border
AB As a consciously transgeneric text, William T. Vollmann’s Imperial explores the delineatedrealities of the US-Mexico border region by zeroing in geographically, culturally, histori-cally, even literarily via his own self-reflexive writing on the border county named Imperial.Vollmann’s intense focus on one specific area produces a sort of Pynchonian excess, meldedwith minimally precise “delineations,” that seeks a never quite settled ethical and aestheticresolution of a reality where the border region is both literally divisive and ceaselessly po-rous. Such literal and literary ‘mapping’ articulates ambivalent strategies of material andtextual wastefulness, it tracks toxic waste disposal and reckless waste abandonment, andit brings to light the conscious, exploitative wasting of human bodies and marginalizedcommunities. But can a literary work of nonfiction invert the very wastefulness of wastethrough its own textual excesses? How does one confront an empire of waste through thevery strategies of wastefulness?
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32173
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 26-jun-2024