ANTHROPOCENE AND LANDFILL: RECYCLING AND USES OF GARBAGE IN FICTION
Monographic dossier (nº 42, July 2027)
Coordination: Jesús Montoya (Universidad de Murcia), Andrea Elvira-Navarro (Universidad de Salamanca) and Carmen Morán (Universidad de Valladolid)
The concept of the Anthropocene, originally understood as an era in which human beings become the world's main terraforming agent, has permeated the debate in the humanities and social sciences over the last decade. Its origin in the field of geology and chemistry has influenced the attention that the humanities have paid to the material, to human waste and to how they configure and relate to all the habitats in which life develops. Literature or art have not disengaged from this material turn. More and more literary works and artistic manifestations, in their various genres and formats, take the material, waste or garbage as central elements when conceiving the production, the artistic process, the distribution or circulation of the works, and the formal, structural and thematic axes that compose them.
Our monograph proposal, "Anthropocene and Landfill: recycling and uses of garbage in Hispanic literature and culture of the 21st century", aims to collect critical studies that analyze the aesthetic, material and symbolic approach to waste in the literature and arts of the present.
The articles, in accordance with the editorial standards of the journal Ogigia. Electronic Journal of Hispanic Studies, will be evaluated by blind peers and must be submitted through the journal's platform no later than September 10, 2026.