Abstract

CAPASSO, Verónica  and  PEEZ KLEIN, Daniela. The transgenic experience and the precariousness of life in the countryside: El costo humano de los agrotóxicos by Piovano and Distancia de rescate by Schweblin. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.2, e008.  Epub Nov 30, 2023. ISSN 1852-9615.  http://dx.doi.org/10.48162/rev.34.065.

This article proposes to analyze, comparatively, the novel Distancia de rescate (2014) by Samanta Schweblin and the photographic series El costo humano de los agrotóxicos (2017) by Pablo Piovano. The theme of the works is the impact of activities linked to agribusiness. Specifically, the widespread cultivation of soybeans, the use of agrochemicals and their negative impact on the health of living forms in rural communities. The works of Schweblin (2014) and Piovano (2017) coincide in the context of the current ecological crisis, in accounting for sacrifice zones: regions subject to environmental damage. While the novel builds a fictional, poetic and even at times magical story, the series of photographs presents a documentary construction. They build different ways of criticizing the current order of things in relation to the environment and the search for a process of reflection. In short, they show the impact that the mode of production is having on the living environment and on the bodies that inhabit it. They point to the transgenic experience: the normalization of the precariousness of life.

Keywords : literature; photography; rural communities; ecological crisis.

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