“Time’s carcase”: Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology
2019; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14788810.2017.1328907
ISSN1740-4649
Autores Tópico(s)Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
ResumoThis article deploys the category of "waste" as an analytical optic through which to explore the connections between the degradation of labour, the contradictions of the value-form, the environment-making dynamics of commodity frontiers and the whirl of finance capital. This investigation forms the basis of a comparison between two very different literary texts: Thomas Hardy's short-story "On the Western Circuit" (1891), set in England's semi-peripheral West Country; and José Américo de Almeida's novel Trash (A Bagaceira, 1928), set across northeast Brazil's sugar zone and peripheral sertão region.
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