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An outstanding study of the production and representation of trash in contemporary Spain that provides an intriguing analysis of how society uses and refuses the material objects of everyday life. --Jessica A. Folkart, Virginia Tech Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity

Cultural archeology at its best, and an indispensable reflection upon the excretion frenzy that takes hold of Spanish contemporary reality, culture, and thought. Amago's incisive and creative unearthing of the residues and waste products of democratic Spain sheds revealing light on the reasons behind the country's uneven path towards modernization, but, even more important, provides the reader with new tools to engage with the 'ontology of trash' in all its philosophical, social, political, and cultural complexity. --Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA, author of Cultures of the Erotic in Spain 1898-1939 An outstanding study of the production and representation of trash in contemporary Spain that provides an intriguing analysis of how society uses and refuses the material objects of everyday life. --Jessica A. Folkart, Virginia Tech, author of Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity

An outstanding study of the production and representation of trash in contemporary Spain that provides an intriguing analysis of how society uses and refuses the material objects of everyday life. "" —Jessica A. Folkart, Virginia Tech, author of Liminal Fiction at the Edge of the Millennium: The Ends of Spanish Identity

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Samuel Amago is Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia and coeditor of Consequential Art: Comics Culture in Contemporary Spain, among other books.

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